Reduction of the Crowding Effect in Spatially Adjacent but Cortically Remote Visual Stimuli

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-132

  Liu, Tingting ^a,b   Jiang, Yi ^b   Sun, Xinghuai ^a   He, Sheng ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58349094726     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.065     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Levi D.M. Crowding-an essential bottleneck for object recognition: A mini-review. Vision Res. 48 (2008) 635-654
2. Pelli D.G., and Tillman K.A. The uncrowded window of object recognition. Nat. Neurosci. 11 (2008) 1129-1135
3. Flom M.C., Heath G.G., and Takahashi E. Contour interaction and visual resolution: Contralateral effects. Science 142 (1963) 979-980
4. Kooi F.L., Toet A., Tripathy S.P., and Levi D.M. The effect of similarity and duration on spatial interaction in peripheral vision. Spat. Vis. 8 (1994) 255-279
5. Levi D.M., Klein S.A., and Aitsebaomo A.P. Vernier acuity, crowding and cortical magnification. Vision Res. 25 (1985) 963-977
6. Westheimer G., and Hauske G. Temporal and spatial interference with vernier acuity. Vision Res. 15 (1975) 1137-1141
7. Tripathy S.P., and Levi D.M. Long-range dichoptic interactions in the human visual cortex in the region corresponding to the blind spot. Vision Res. 34 (1994) 1127-1138
8. He S., Cavanagh P., and Intriligator J. Attentional resolution and the locus of visual awareness. Nature 383 (1996) 334-337
9. Levi D.M., and Waugh S.J. Spatial scale shifts in peripheral vernier acuity. Vision Res. 34 (1994) 2215-2238
10. Pelli D.G., Palomares M., and Majaj N.J. Crowding is unlike ordinary masking: Distinguishing feature integration from detection. J. Vis. 4 (2004) 1136-1169
11. Intriligator J., and Cavanagh P. The spatial resolution of visual attention. Cognit. Psychol. 43 (2001) 171-216
12. Sereno M.I., Dale A.M., Reppas J.B., Kwong K.K., Belliveau J.W., Brady T.J., Rosen B.R., and Tootell R.B. Borders of multiple visual areas in humans revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Science 268 (1995) 889-893
13. Pillow J., and Rubin N. Perceptual completion across the vertical meridian and the role of early visual cortex. Neuron 33 (2002) 805-813
14. Alvarez G.A., and Cavanagh P. Independent resources for attentional tracking in the left and right visual hemifields. Psychol. Sci. 16 (2005) 637-643
15. Carlson T.A., Alvarez G.A., and Cavanagh P. Quadrantic deficit reveals anatomical constraints on selection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104 (2007) 13496-13500
16. Blake R., Tadin D., Sobel K.V., Raissian T.A., and Chong S.C. Strength of early visual adaptation depends on visual awareness. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103 (2006) 4783-4788
17. Gattass R., Sousa A.P., and Gross C.G. Visuotopic organization and extent of V3 and V4 of the macaque. J. Neurosci. 8 (1988) 1831-1845
18. Wade A.R., Brewer A.A., Rieger J.W., and Wandell B.A. Functional measurements of human ventral occipital cortex: Retinotopy and colour. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 357 (2002) 963-973
19. Brewer A.A., Liu J., Wade A.R., and Wandell B.A. Visual field maps and stimulus selectivity in human ventral occipital cortex. Nat. Neurosci. 8 (2005) 1102-1109
20. Hansen K.A., Kay K.N., and Gallant J.L. Topographic organization in and near human visual area V4. J. Neurosci. 27 (2007) 11896-11911
21. Pinon M.C., Gattass R., and Sousa A.P. Area V4 in Cebus monkey: Extent and visuotopic organization. Cereb. Cortex 8 (1998) 685-701
22. Chung S.T., Li R.W., and Levi D.M. Crowding between first- and second-order letter stimuli in normal foveal and peripheral vision. J. Vis. 7 (2007) 10.1-10.13
23. Ferrera V.P., Nealey T.A., and Maunsell J.H. Mixed parvocellular and magnocellular geniculate signals in visual area V4. Nature 358 (1992) 756-761
24. Ferrera V.P., Nealey T.A., and Maunsell J.H. Responses in macaque visual area V4 following inactivation of the parvocellular and magnocellular LGN pathways. J. Neurosci. 14 (1994) 2080-2088
25. Afraz S.R., Montaser-Kouhsari L., Vaziri-Pashkam M., and Moradi F. Interhemispheric visual interaction in a patient with posterior callosectomy. Neuropsychologia 41 (2003) 597-604
26. Livne T., and Sagi D. Configuration influence on crowding. J. Vis. 7 (2007) 4.1-4.12
27. Louie E.G., Bressler D.W., and Whitney D. Holistic crowding: Selective interference between configural representations of faces in crowded scenes. J. Vis. 7 (2007) 24.1-24.11
28. Brainard D.H. The psychophysics toolbox. Spat. Vis. 10 (1997) 433-436
29. Pelli D.G. The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: Transforming numbers into movies. Spat. Vis. 10 (1997) 437-442