Configuration specificity of crowding in peripheral vision

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1239-1248

  Yeotikar, Nisha S ^a   Khuu, Sieu K ^a   Asper, Lisa J ^a   Suttle, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Configuration; Crowding; Discrimination; Flanker; Periphery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING PHENOMENON; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955631093     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.03.016     Document Type: Article

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