Recovery of a crowded object by masking the flankers: Determining the locus of feature integration

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Chakravarthi, Ramakrishna ^a   Cavanagh, Patrick ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Extrastriate cortex; Feature integration; Masking; Object recognition; Target recovery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69949096669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.10.4     Document Type: Article

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