On the relations between crowding and visual masking

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 584-595

  Huckauf, Anke ^a   Heller, Dieter ^b  

^a BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 4544247423     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194903     Document Type: Article

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