Denis Pelli's Blog

Of all my journal papers, I’d single out this one, with Kat Tillman, to represent my research to date. “Crowding” is a breakdown of object recognition due to the combining of features over an inappropriately large area. Most of our visual field is crowded most of the time. The spared central field is the uncrowded window through which we recognize objects and read.
Pelli, D. G., & Tillman, K. A. (2008) The uncrowded window of object recognition. Nature Neuroscience, 11(10):1129-1135.  [PDF, including supplement]