title: Number, texture and crowding.
abstract: A recent study shows that selectivity for numerosity emerges as a natural property in deep networks of hierarchical generative models of visual perception. These results, together with recent conceptualizations of crowding and texture, suggest that the 'sense of number' is a fundamental visual property, independent of texture and seemingly related attributes.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia. jr@psy.uwa.edu.au
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burr
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D012858:Size Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology