Bistable perception of symbolic numbers

Junxiang Luo, Isao Yokoi, Serge O Dumoulin, Hiromasa Takemura

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Numerals, that is, semantic expressions of numbers, enable us to have an exact representation of the amount of things. Visual processing of numerals plays an indispensable role in the recognition and interpretation of numbers. Here, we investigate how visual information from numerals is processed to achieve semantic understanding. We first found that partial occlusion of some digital numerals introduces bistable interpretations. Next, by using the visual adaptation method, we investigated the origin of this bistability in human participants. We showed that adaptation to digital and normal Arabic numerals, as well as homologous shapes, but not Chinese numerals, biases the interpretation of a partially occluded digital numeral. We suggest that this bistable interpretation is driven by intermediate shape processing stages of vision, that is, by features more complex than local visual orientations, but more basic than the abstract concepts of numerals.

Originele taal-2Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)12
TijdschriftJournal of Vision
Volume24
Nummer van het tijdschrift9
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StatusGepubliceerd - 03 sep. 2024

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