Crowding is unlike ordinary masking: Distinguishing feature integration from detection

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1136-1169

  Pelli, Denis G ^a   Palomares, Melanie ^a   Majaj, Najib J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical spacing; Crowding; Feature integration; Illusory conjuction; Integration field; Isolation field; Letter identification; Masking; Object recognition; Peripheral vision; Second order mechanisms

Indexed keywords

AFTERIMAGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROWDING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 6444221648     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.12.12     Document Type: Article

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