Contrast polarity differences reduce crowding but do not benefit reading performance in peripheral vision

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2782-2789

  Chung, Susana T L ^a   Mansfield, J Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Crowding; Peripheral vision; Reading; Visual span

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; PERIPHERAL VISION; POLARIZATION; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449518981     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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