Crowding, generally defined as the deleterious influence of nearby contours on visual
discrimination, is ubiquitous in spatial vision. Crowding impairs the ability to recognize …

Reports published in Vision Research during the late years of the 20th century described
surprising effects of long-term sensitivity improvement with some basic visual tasks as a …

Most models of visual search, whether involving overt eye movements or covert shifts of
attention, are based on the concept of a saliency map, that is, an explicit two-dimensional …

Playing action video games enhances several different aspects of visual processing;
however, the mechanisms underlying this improvement remain unclear. Here we show that …

This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition
continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in …

A shape can be more difficult to identify when other shapes are near it. For example, when
several grating patches are viewed parafoveally, observers are unable to report the …

Recent research [Parkhurst, D., Law, K., & Niebur, E., 2002. Modeling the role of salience in
the allocation of overt visual attention. Vision Research 42 (1)(2002) 107–123] showed that …

Visual detection and discrimination thresholds are often measured using adaptive
staircases, and most studies use transformed (or weighted) up/down methods with fixed step …

To explore the role of primary visual cortex in contour integration, we measured the
contextual sensitivity of human contrast thresholds and of superficial layer complex cells in …

Practicing certain visual tasks leads, as a result of a process termed “perceptual learning,” to
a significant improvement in performance. Learning is specific for basic stimulus features …