The dependence of crowding on flanker complexity and target-flanker similarity

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Bernard, Jean Baptiste ^a   Chung, Susana T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Letter recognition; Object recognition; Reading; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROWDING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROWDING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054700550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.8.1     Document Type: Article

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