Asymmetries and idiosyncratic hot spots in crowding

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1117-1123

  Petrov, Yury ^a   Meleshkevich, Olga ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955594622     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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