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Ensemble perception
Rather than represent every object individually, the visual system can encode summary statistics across a set. We study how people perceive averages, variability, and numerosity in crowds, faces, and scenes.
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The science of
seeing together.
We investigate the shortcuts that allow vision to transform overwhelming sensory input into coherent, useful representations.
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Individual differences
People differ in how accurately they form ensemble representations. Those differences help reveal whether visual summaries arise from a single general ability or from multiple independent levels of representation.
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Social cognition
Our applied work asks how visual perception supports social judgments—including perceived status, emotion, self-representation, aesthetics, and body-related biases.