Seeing the Crowd:
Ensemble Biological Motion

Tim Sweeny, Steve Haroz, David Whitney

 

Read the abstract in Journal of Vision

Too Fast for Serial

Notice how quickly you can find the average direction. Our data shows that you are not simply sampling a couple of walkers. Instead, you are incorporating information from all of the walkers on the screen. Furthermore, the percept is too fast (<1 second) to require serially examining each walker, so it must be encoded in parallel.

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