The uncrowded window of object recognition.
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SUBMITTER: Pelli DG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2772078 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
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The uncrowded window of object recognition.
Pelli Denis G DG Tillman Katharine A KA
Nature neuroscience 20081001 10
It is now emerging that vision is usually limited by object spacing rather than size. The visual system recognizes an object by detecting and then combining its features. 'Crowding' occurs when objects are too close together and features from several objects are combined into a jumbled percept. Here, we review the explosion of studies on crowding--in grating discrimination, letter and face recognition, visual search, selective attention, and reading--and find a universal principle, the Bouma law ...[more]
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