Apparent string shortening concomitant with letter crowding

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1059-1067

  Liu, L ^a   Arditi, A ^a  

^a Arlene R Gordon Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Acuity; Crowding; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CROWDING; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STIMULUS; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034059254     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00247-3     Document Type: Article

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