More is better: Improved visual discrimination through local feature diversity in naturalistic objects
Mina Glukhova, Alisha Crider, Anastasiia Galiagina, Berkutay Mert, Katharine A. Shapcott, Marvin Weigand, Martha Nari Havenith, Marieke Louise Schölvinck
The paper compares human discrimination performance between oriented gratings and natural object morphs, finding that morphs are discriminated faster and over a larger range due to local color and texture features.
bioRxiv · Jan 12, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience