The effect of spacing regularity on visual crowding

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Saarela, T P ^a   Westheimer, G ^b   Herzog, M H ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crowding; Detection discrimination; Perceptual organization; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROWDING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; CROWDING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79952634944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.10.17     Document Type: Article

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