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  "id": 14703311,
  "title": "Foveated metamers of the early visual system",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/foveated-metamers-of-the-early-visual-system",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "eLife",
    "slug": "elife",
    "url": "https://elifesciences.org/articles/90554"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The ability of humans to discriminate and identify spatial patterns varies across the visual field and is generally worse in the periphery than in the fovea. This decline in performance is revealed in many kinds of tasks, from detection to recognition. A parsimonious hypothesis is that the representation of any visual feature is blurred (spatially averaged) by an amount that differs for each…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}