Crowding results from optimal integration of visual targets with contextual information

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    Most popular current models of crowding involve some form of compulsory pooling (or substitution) of targets with flankers. Parkes and colleagues12 showed that while the orientation of a Gabor patch cannot be determined when embedded in flankers, it does influence the perceived orientation of the ensemble: hence it is merged with the flankers, rather than suppressed. Certainly, it impacts heavily on object recognition in Nature Communications | 13:5741 conditions were tested: a rounded target with elongated flankers (Low reliability target, high reliability flankers, blue at left) or an elongated target with rounded ovals (red . . .

     

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