Visual Crowding: a fundamental limit on conscious perception and object recognition
By David Whitney, Dennis M. Levi. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2011
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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.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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- A mechanistic cortical microcircuit of attention for amplification, normalization and suppression. (2015, background): “Suppression is also observed in crowding (Whitney & Levi, 2011) where the visibility of a stimulus is reduced if it is shown with nearby stimuli.”