Crowding in a detection task: External noise triggers change in processing strategy

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 408-416

  Allard, Rémy ^a   Cavanagh, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Contrast detection; Crowding; External noise paradigms; Noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; VOLUNTEER;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952004185     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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