Representing Variability
How Do We Process the Heterogeneity in the Visual Environment?

This Element highlights how visual variability has recently been changing, resulting in important insights into visual perception.

Andrey Chetverikov (Author), Árni Kristjánsson (Author)

9781009396011, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 March 2024

92 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm, 0.15 kg

The visual world is full of detail. This Element focuses on this variability in perception, asking how it affects performance in visual tasks and how the variability is represented by human observers. The authors highlight different methods for assessing representations of variability and suggest that understanding visual variability can be elusive when straightforward explicit methods are used, while more implicit methods may be better suited to uncovering such processing. The authors conclude that variability is represented in far more detail than previously thought and that this aspect of perception is vital for understanding the complexity of visual consciousness.

1. Introduction
2. How does variability affect visual cognition?
3. How is variability represented?
4. Discussion
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM]