Suppressive and facilitatory spatial interactions in peripheral vision: Peripheral crowding is neither size invariant nor simple contrast masking

Journal of Vision

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-177

  Levi, Dennis M ^a   Hariharan, Srividhya ^b   Klein, Stanley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Crowding; Masking; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL VISION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA FOVEA; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION;

EID: 0036974630     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/2.2.3     Document Type: Article

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