Saccade-confounded image statistics explain visual crowding

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 463-469

  Nandy, Anirvan S ^a,b   Tjan, Bosco S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; CROWDING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84857648982     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3021     Document Type: Article

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