Visual crowding: A fundamental limit on conscious perception and object recognition

D Whitney, DM Levi - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2011 - cell.com
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 …

Seven myths on crowding and peripheral vision

H Strasburger - i-Perception, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Crowding has become a hot topic in vision research, and some fundamentals are now
widely agreed upon. For the classical crowding task, one would likely agree with the …

Visual discrimination of orientation statistics in crowded and uncrowded arrays

JA Solomon - Journal of vision, 2010 - jov.arvojournals.org
When required to identify the orientation of an item outside the center of the visual field, the
mean orientation predicts performance better than the orientation of any individual item in …

Visual crowding cannot be wholly explained by feature pooling.

EF Ester, D Klee, E Awh - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual perception is dramatically impaired when a peripheral target is embedded within
clutter, a phenomenon known as visual crowding. Despite decades of study, the …

[HTML][HTML] Substitution and pooling in visual crowding induced by similar and dissimilar distractors

EF Ester, E Zilber, JT Serences - Journal of vision, 2015 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Visual crowding refers to a phenomenon whereby objects that appear in the periphery of the
visual field are more difficult to identify when embedded within clutter. Pooling models assert …

Crowding results from optimal integration of visual targets with contextual information

GM Cicchini, G D'Errico, DC Burr - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Crowding is the inability to recognize an object in clutter, usually considered a fundamental
low-level bottleneck to object recognition. Here we advance and test an alternative idea, that …

Variability in visual cortex size reflects tradeoff between local orientation sensitivity and global orientation modulation

C Song, DS Schwarzkopf, G Rees - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
The surface area of early visual cortices varies several fold across healthy adult humans and
is genetically heritable. But the functional consequences of this anatomical variability are still …

Dissociable effects of visual crowding on the perception of color and motion

JA Greenwood, MJ Parsons - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Our ability to recognize objects in peripheral vision is fundamentally limited by crowding, the
deleterious effect of clutter that disrupts the recognition of features ranging from orientation …

Spatial contextual effects in primary visual cortex limit feature representation under crowding

CA Henry, A Kohn - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Crowding is a profound loss of discriminability of visual features, when a target stimulus is
surrounded by distractors. Numerous studies of human perception have characterized how …

Crowding follows the binding of relative position and orientation

JA Greenwood, PJ Bex, SC Dakin - Journal of Vision, 2012 - jov.arvojournals.org
Crowding—the deleterious influence of clutter on object recognition—disrupts the
identification of visual features as diverse as orientation, motion, and color. It is unclear …