The mechanism of word crowding

Vision Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-69

  Yu, Deyue ^a   Akau, Melanie M U ^a   Chung, Susana T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Features; Holistic representation; Peripheral vision; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL READING SPEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VELOCITY; VERTICAL WORD SPACING; WORD CONFIGURATION; WORD CROWDING; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84455202371     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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