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In peripheral vision, individual item information becomes inaccessible in the presence of distractors. Parkes et al. now show this information is not lost, but integrated into accurate ensemble statistics, suggesting that such 'crowding' may be related to texture perception.

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Figure 1: When fixating the dot on the top left, the K to the right is easily identified.

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Cavanagh, P. Seeing the forest but not the trees. Nat Neurosci 4, 673–674 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/89436

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