The shape and size of crowding for moving targets

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 27, 2003, Pages 2895-2904

  Bex, Peter J ^a   Dakin, Steven C ^a   Simmers, Anita J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acuity; Crowding; Motion; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RETINA FOVEA; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0141953239     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00460-7     Document Type: Article

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