Reducing crowding by weakening inhibitory lateral interactions in the periphery with perceptual learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Maniglia, Marcello ^a   Pavan, Andrea ^b   Cuturi, Luigi F ^c   Campana, Gianluca ^a   Sato, Giovanni ^d   Casco, Clara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Centro di Riabilitazione Visiva Ipovedenti c/o Istituto L Configliachi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; FACILITATION; LEARNING; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIPHERAL VISION; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; HUMAN; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80055110787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025568     Document Type: Article

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