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The interplay between selective attention and summary statistics
Yonatan Vanunu1,2,3, Roger Ratcliff3
1Coller School of Management, https://ror.org/04mhzgx49Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel yvanunu@tauex.tau.ac.ul.
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Rosenholtz argues that summary statistics explain attentional phenomena via peripheral vision. While we acknowledge their role, we challenge the claim that they serve as an alternative mechanism. Instead, we argue that summary statistics and selective attention are interdependent, shaping visual perception under limited capacity, as evidenced by perceptual biases in numerosity judgments and mean estimations of shape size, color, and position.
