Shift in spatial scale in identifying crowded letters

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 437-451

  Chung, Susana T L ^a   Tjan, Bosco S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Letter identification; Spatial frequency channel; Spatial scale shift

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33846568007     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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