Beyond average: The active processing of information in ensemble perception

Authors

Sarah Parigela, Dartmouth CollegeFollow
Ria Parikh, Dartmouth CollegeFollow
Kevin Ortego, Dartmouth CollegeFollow
Viola Stoermer, Dartmouth CollegeFollow

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Student Class

2027

Student Affiliation

WISP Intern

First Advisor

Viola Stoermer

First Advisor Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Second Advisor

Kevin Ortego

Second Advisor Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Description

Ensembles can be found in daily life. Surveying faces in a crowd, generalizing states of objects (ex. clean vs. dirty tables in a restaurant)---they all require computing averages. Previous studies have shown that observers can quickly and automatically extract information about means of groups. Through a task of reporting orientations of sets of triangles, we hypothesized that participants should be more accurate when averaging large groups than remembering individual items.

Publication Date

2024

Keywords

ensemble perception, ensemble

Disciplines

Cognition and Perception

Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation

Parigela, Sarah; Parikh, Ria; Ortego, Kevin; and Stoermer, Viola, "Beyond average: The active processing of information in ensemble perception" (2024). Wetterhahn Science Symposium Posters 2024. 9.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/wetterhahn_2024/9