Seeing Sets: Representation by Statistical Properties

By Dan Ariely. Psychology Science, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology

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Building the gist of a scene: the role of global image features in recognition. (2006, background): “…literature suggest that our visual system analyzes global statistical summary of the image in a preselective stage of visual processing, or at least with minimal attentional resources (mean orientation, Parkes et al., 2001; mean of set of objects, Ariely, 2001; Chong and Treisman, 2003).”
Hierarchical Encoding in Visual Working Memory (2010, background): “Observers can quickly and accurately compute ensemble statistics about a display, such as the mean size (Ariely, 2001; Chong & Treisman, 2003), orientation (Parkes, Lund, Angelucci, Solomon, & Morgan, 2001), and location (Alvarez & Oliva, 2008) of the items; the mean expression of a set of faces…”
Representation of statistical properties. (2003, background): “The starting point was a finding by Ariely (2001) and Ariely and Burbeck (1995), who showed that participants are considerably better at judging the mean size of a set of circles than at judging the size of any randomly selected member of the set.”
Non-commercial Research and Educational Use including without Limitation Use in Instruction at Your Institution, Sending It to Specific Colleagues That You Know, and Providing a Copy to Your Institution's Administrator. All Other Uses, Reproduction and Distribution, including without Limitation Comm (2005, neutral): “All these methods require considerable A u t h o r ' s p e r s o n a l”
Rapid extraction of mean emotion and gender from sets of faces. (2007, neutral): “If we were not able to extract summary statistics from arrays of dots [1] or gratings [3], texture perception itself would be difficult or impossible.”
Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics (2003, methodology): “Frederick (2003, personal communication) has used simple puzzles to study cognitive selfmonitoring, as in the following example: “A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total.”
MAPS OF BOUNDED RATIONALITY: A PERSPECTIVE ON INTUITIVE JUDGMENT AND CHOICE (2003, methodology): “When a set of objects of the same general kind is presented to an observer – whether simultaneously or successively – a representation of the set is computed automatically, which includes quite precise information about the average (Ariely, 2001; Chong & Treisman, in press).”
Statistical processing: computing the average size in perceptual groups. (2005, positive): “The equal accuracy we observed for displays of 8 and 16 items confirms the earlier finding by Ariely (2001) that averaging is unaffected by display size.”