Object-level visual information gets through the bottleneck of crowding

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1389-1398

  Fischer, Jason ^a   Whitney, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Ensemble; Face recognition; Object recognition; Sparse selection; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; FOVEAVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CROWDING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80052566632     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00904.2010     Document Type: Article

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