https://www.pisavisionlab.org Research centre dedicated to frontier, interdisciplinary research of human perception Thu, 26 May 2022 10:56:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.10 https://www.pisavisionlab.org/2022/05/26/the-dynamics-of-grouping-induced-biases-in-apparent-numerosity-revealed-by-a-continuous-tracking-technique%ef%bf%bc/ Thu, 26 May 2022 10:52:55 +0000 https://www.pisavisionlab.org/?p=4178 Journal of Vision 2021, Vol.21, 8 Connecting pairs of items causes robust underestimation of the numerosity of an ensemble, presumably by invoking grouping mechanisms. Here we asked whether this underestimation in numerosity judgments could be revealed and further explored by continuous tracking, a newly developed technique that allows for fast and efficient data acquisition and monitors the dynamics of the responses. Participants continuously reproduced the perceived numerosity of a cloud of dots by moving a cursor along a number line, while the number of dots and the proportion connected by lines varied over time following two independent random walks. The technique was robust and efficient, and correlated well with results obtained with a standard psychophysics task. Connecting objects with lines caused an underestimation of approximately 15% during tracking, agreeing with previous studies. The response to the lines was slower than the response to the physical numerosity, with a delay of approximately 150 ms, suggesting that this extra time is necessary for processing the grouping effect. Pierfrancesco Ambrosi; Antonella Pomè; David Charles Burr https://www.pisavisionlab.org/2022/05/26/the-dynamics-of-grouping-induced-biases-in-apparent-numerosity-revealed-by-a-continuous-tracking-technique%ef%bf%bc/i1534-7362-21-13-8_1639640560-95951/https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.13.8