Attentional modulation of crowding

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 805-809

  Mareschal, Isabelle ^a   Morgan, Michael J ^a   Solomon, Joshua A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Crowding; Orientation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950516189     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.01.022     Document Type: Article

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