How odgcrnwi becomes crowding: Stimulus-specific learning reduces crowding

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Huckauf, Anke ^a   Nazir, Tatjana A ^b  

^a BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^b ISC CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Crowding; Perceptual learning; Visual letter and word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; HUMANS; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548127288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.2.18     Document Type: Article

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