Crowding by invisible flankers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Ho, Cristy ^a   Cheung, Sing Hang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISIBILITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83355170600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028814     Document Type: Article

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