Two’s company, three’s a crowd: Individuation is necessary for object recognition

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 184; pp. 69 - 82
• Main Authors: Chakravarthi, Ramakrishna, Herbert, Amy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.03.2019; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Acknowledgment; Attention; Attention - physiology; Confusion; Crowding; Enumeration; Female; Humans; Identity formation; Individuation; Male; Pattern recognition; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Reaction Time - physiology; Recognition; Selective attention; Subitizing; Visual Perception - physiology; Enumeration; Subitizing; Individuation; Recognition; Crowding; Attention

•The relationship between object individuation and identification was tested.•Crowding (an identification process) impaired subitizing (an individuation process).•Individuation is necessary for recognition, and is impaired in crowding.•Crowding and individuation share a common bottleneck: likely sel...