ArticleScientific reports2021
Mixture model investigation of the inner-outer asymmetry in visual crowding reveals a heavier weight towards the visual periphery.
Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Spatial anisotropy in crowding and ensemble perception.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Examining the diametric model of autistic and psychotic traits through temporal perception.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- When periphery rules: Enhanced sampling weights of the visual periphery in crowding across dimensions.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- A computational approach to the N-back task.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Cost and benefit of parafoveal information during reading acquisition as revealed by finger movement patterns.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Interference across time: dissociating short from long temporal interference.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The impact of training on the inner-outer asymmetry in crowding.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- The role of spatial attention in crowding and feature binding.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Transient attention equally reduces visual crowding in radial and tangential axes.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Mixture-modeling approach reveals global and local processes in visual crowding.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Atypical visual field asymmetries in redundancy masking.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Temporal crowding is a unique phenomenon reflecting impaired target encoding over large temporal intervals.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- Characterizing the in-out asymmetry in visual crowding.Journal of vision · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Crowding, the failure to identify a peripheral item in clutter, is an essential bottleneck in visual information processing. A hallmark characteristic of crowding is the inner-outer asymmetry in which the outer flanker (more eccentric) produces stronger interference than the inner one (closer to the fovea). We tested the contribution of the inner-outer asymmetry to the pattern of crowding errors in a typical radial crowding display in which both flankers are presented simultaneously on the horizontal meridian. In two experiments, observers were asked to estimate the orientation of a Gabor target. Instead of the target, observers reported the outer flanker much more frequently than the inner one. When the target was the outer Gabor, crowding was reduced. Furthermore, when there were four flankers, two on each side of the target, observers misreported the outer flanker adjacent to the target, not the outermost flanker. Model comparisons suggested that orientation crowding reflects sampling over a weighted sum of the represented features, in which the outer flanker is more heavily weighted compared to the inner one. Our findings reveal a counterintuitive phenomenon: in a radial arrangement of orientation crowding, within a region of selection, the outer item dominates appearance more than the inner one.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.