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Visual crowding: a fundamental limit on conscious perception and object recognition
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Crowding, the inability to recognize objects in clutter, sets a fundamental limit on conscious visual perception and object recognition throughout most of the visual field. Despite how widespread and essential it is to object recognition, reading, and visually guided action, a solid operational definition of what crowding is has only recently become clear. The goal of this review is to provide a broad-based synthesis of the most recent findings in this area, to define what crowding is and is not, and to set the stage for future work that will extend crowding well beyond low-level vision. Here we define five diagnostic criteria for what counts as crowding, and further describe factors that both escape and break crowding. All of these lead to the conclusion that crowding occurs at multiple stages in the visual hierarchy.
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- Whitney, D., & Levi, D. M.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-04
- Volume
- 15
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- 4
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- 160-168
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