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Vision science for all · Union College
How do we see
the forest and
the trees?
We study how the visual system makes sense of complex scenes—especially how people represent groups, crowds, and collections at a glance.
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Research
Seeing more
by representing less.
At any moment, our retinas receive more information than the brain can process item by item. The visual system begins to solve this problem by using efficient summaries—such as the average expression in a crowd of faces.
Our lab investigates these ensemble representations, how they may be used to overcome the limits of visual capacity, and the ways perception informs social judgment.
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Small lab.
Big questions.
Students are collaborators in every part of the research process—from designing experiments to presenting new findings.
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Recent research
Explore publications, posters, and ongoing projects in ensemble perception and social cognition.
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