Our visual system possesses a remarkable ability to extract summary statistical information from groups of similar objects, known as ensemble perception. It remains elusive whether the processing of ensemble statistics exerts influences on our perceptual decision-making and what roles consciousness and attention play in this process. In a series of experiments, we demonstrated that the processing of ensemble statistics can exert significant modulation effects on our perceptual decision-making, which is independent of consciousness but relies on attentional resources. More intriguingly, the conscious and unconscious ensemble representations respectively induce repulsive and attractive modulation effects, with the unconscious effect susceptible to the temporal separation and the distinction between the inducers and the targets. These results not only suggest that the conscious and unconscious ensemble representations engage different visual processing mechanisms but also highlight the distinct roles of consciousness and attention in ensemble perception. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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整体统计的有意识和无意识处理相反地调节感知决策。

我们的视觉系统具有从相似对象组中提取摘要统计信息的非凡能力，称为整体感知。整体统计的处理是否对我们的感知决策产生影响，以及意识和注意力在这个过程中扮演什么角色，仍然是个谜。在一系列实验中，我们证明了整体统计的处理可以对我们的知觉决策产生显着的调节作用，它独立于意识但依赖于注意力资源。更有趣的是，有意识和无意识的整体表征分别引起排斥和吸引的调制效应，无意识效应容易受到时间分离和诱导者与目标之间的区别的影响。这些结果不仅表明有意识和无意识的整体表征涉及不同的视觉处理机制，而且还突出了意识和注意力在整体感知中的不同作用。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。