Holistic crowding: Selective interference between configural representations of faces in crowded scenes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Louie, Elizabeth G ^a   Bressler, David W ^a   Whitney, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Ensemble; Face recognition; Lateral; Masking; Object; Perception; Spatial; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACE; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

FACE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36549062557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.2.24     Document Type: Article

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