Precision of position signals for letters

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1948-1960

  Chung, Susana T L ^a   Legge, Gordon E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Letter identification; Letter mislocations; Letter reversals; Local signs; Pattern vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; READING;

EID: 67649205147     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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