The extent of crowding in peripheral vision does not scale with target size

Vision Research

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 2357-2369

  Tripathy, Srimant P ^a   Cavanagh, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0036753577     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00197-9     Document Type: Article

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