ArticleScientific reports2018
Foveal Crowding Resolved.
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- Looking for Details: Fine-Grained Visual Search at the Foveal Scale.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Foveal crowding modifies a target's properties under a brief presentation time.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Computational Modeling Reveals Minimal Vigilance Changes in a Cognitive Monitoring Task.Computational brain & behavior · 2025Article
- Oculomotor Contributions to Foveal Crowding.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Landolt C-Tests With "Fixed" Arcmin Separations Detect Amblyopia But Underestimate Crowding in Moderate-to-Severe Amblyopic Children and Adults.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2024Article
- Flicker adaptation improves acuity for briefly presented stimuli by reducing crowding.Journal of vision · 2024Article
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- Abnormal basic visual processing functions in binocular fusion disorders.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- An eye for detail: Eye movements and attention at the foveal scale.Vision research · 2023Article
- The Bouma law accounts for crowding in 50 observers.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Motion adaptation improves acuity (but perceived size doesn't matter).Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Crowding can impact both low and high contrast visual acuity measurements.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Foveal crowding appears to be robust to normal aging and glaucoma unlike parafoveal and peripheral crowding.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Crowding changes appearance systematically in peripheral, amblyopic, and developing vision.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Multidimensional feature interactions in visual crowding: When configural cues eliminate the polarity advantage.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Cortical distance unifies the extent of parafoveal contour interactions.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Broad attention uncovers benefits of stimulus uniformity in visual crowding.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Crowding is the substantial interference of neighboring items on target identification. Crowding with letter stimuli has been studied primarily in the visual periphery, with conflicting results for foveal stimuli. While a cortical locus for peripheral crowding is well established (with a large spatial extent up to half of the target eccentricity), disentangling the contributing factors in the fovea is more challenging due to optical limitations. Here, we used adaptive optics (AO) to overcome ocular aberrations and employed high-resolution stimuli to precisely characterize foveal lateral interactions with high-contrast letters flanked by letters. Crowding was present, with a maximal edge-to-edge interference zone of 0.75-1.3 minutes at typical unflanked performance levels. In agreement with earlier foveal contour interaction studies, performance was non-monotonic, revealing a recovery effect with proximal flankers. Modeling revealed that the deleterious effects of flankers can be described by a single function across stimulus sizes when the degradation is expressed as a reduction in sensitivity (expressed in Z-score units). The recovery, however, did not follow this pattern, likely reflecting a separate mechanism. Additional analysis reconciles multiple results from the literature, including the observed scale invariance of center-to-center spacing, as well as the size independence of edge-to-edge spacing.
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