Number, texture and crowding

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.

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