A neurophysiologically plausible population code model for feature integration explains visual crowding

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Van Den Berg, Ronald ^a,b   Roerdink, Jos B T M ^a   Cornelissen, Frans W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

FEATURE INTEGRATION; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; HUMAN VISION; OBJECTS RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; PERIPHERAL VISUAL FIELD; PLAUSIBLE MODEL; SPATIAL FEATURES; SPATIAL INTEGRATIONS; VISUAL CROWDING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 76749090140     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000646     Document Type: Article

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