It is now emerging that vision is usually limited by object spacing rather than size. The visual
system recognizes an object by detecting and then combining its features.'Crowding'occurs …

The size and shape of printed symbols determine the legibility of text. In this paper, we focus
on print size because of its crucial role in understanding reading performance and its …

The first edition of Designing for Older Adults: Principles and Creative Human Factors
Approaches broke ground as an easily accessible source of information, a primer on …

Bouma's law of crowding predicts an uncrowded central window through which we can read
and a crowded periphery through which we cannot. The old discovery that readers make …

The external world is mapped retinotopically onto the primary visual cortex (V1). We show
here that objects in the world, unless they are very dissimilar, can be recognized only if they …

Background The purpose of low‐vision rehabilitation is to allow people to resume or to
continue to perform daily living tasks, with reading being one of the most important. This is …

For most sighted people, navigating from place to place is a fundamental component of daily
life, performed without much conscious thought or active attention (Merleau-Ponty 1962). If …

In crowding, the perception of a target strongly deteriorates when neighboring elements are
presented. Crowding is usually assumed to have the following characteristics.(a) Crowding …

Recent advances in the technology affording eye movement recordings carry the risk of
neglecting past achievements. Without the assistance of this modern armoury, great strides …

Previous studies of tactile acuity on the fingertip, using passive touch, have demonstrated an
age-related decline in spatial resolution for both sighted and blind subjects. We have …