How do flankers' relations affect crowding?

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Livne, Tomer ^a   Sagi, Dov ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contour integration; Crowding; Grouping; Perceptual organization; Segmentation; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 77954676553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.3.1     Document Type: Article

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