Volume 7, Number 2 doi:10.1167/7.2 http://journalofvision.org/7/2/ ISSN 1534-7362

Special Issue Introduction
i Crowding: Including illusory conjunctions, surround suppression, and attention
Denis G. Pelli
Patrick Cavanagh
Robert Desimone
Bosco Tjan
Anne Treisman

Articles
1 Grouping of contextual elements that affect vernier thresholds
Maka Malania
Michael H. Herzog
Gerald Westheimer
2 Effect of letter spacing on visual span and reading speed
Deyue Yu
Sing-Hang Cheung
Gordon E. Legge
Susana T. L. Chung
3 Spacing affects some but not all visual searches: Implications for theories of attention and crowding
Lavanya Reddy
Rufin VanRullen
4 Configuration influence on crowding
Tomer Livne
Dov Sagi
5 The nature of letter crowding as revealed by first- and second-order classification images
Anirvan S. Nandy
Bosco S. Tjan
6 The roles of cortical image separation and size in active visual search performance
Brad C. Motter
Diglio A. Simoni
7 Spatial attention, preview, and popout: Which factors influence critical spacing in crowded displays?
Miranda Scolari
Andrew Kohnen
Brian Barton
Edward Awh
8 Crowding is directed to the fovea and preserves only feature contrast
Yury Petrov
Ariella V. Popple
9 The case for the visual span as a sensory bottleneck in reading
Gordon E. Legge
Sing-Hang Cheung
Deyue Yu
Susana T. L. Chung
Hye-Won Lee
Daniel P. Owens
10 Crowding between first- and second-order letter stimuli in normal foveal and peripheral vision
Susana T. L. Chung
Roger W. Li
Dennis M. Levi
11 Temporal properties of the polarity advantage effect in crowding
Ramakrishna Chakravarthi
Patrick Cavanagh
12 Crowding and surround suppression: Not to be confused
Yury Petrov
Ariella V. Popple
Suzanne P. McKee
13 Horizontal and vertical asymmetry in visual spatial crowding effects
Chengzhi Feng
Yi Jiang
Sheng He
14 On the generality of crowding: Visual crowding in size, saturation, and hue compared to orientation
Ronald van den Berg
Jos B. T. M. Roerdink
Frans W. Cornelissen
15 Position shifts following crowded second-order motion adaptation reveal processing of local and global motion without awareness
Thomas D. Harp
David W. Bressler
David Whitney
16 Crowding: A neuroanalytic approach
Christopher W. Tyler
Lora T. Likova
17 Measuring visual clutter
Ruth Rosenholtz
Yuanzhen Li
Lisa Nakano
18 How odgcrnwi becomes crowding: Stimulus-specific learning reduces crowding
Anke Huckauf
Tatjana A. Nazir
19 Stimulus similarity modulates competitive interactions in human visual cortex
Diane M. Beck
Sabine Kastner
20 Crowding and eccentricity determine reading rate
Denis G. Pelli
Katharine A. Tillman
Jeremy Freeman
Michael Su
Tracey D. Berger
Najib J. Majaj
21 Amblyopic reading is crowded
Dennis M. Levi
Shuang Song
Denis G. Pelli
22 An escape from crowding
Jeremy Freeman
Denis G. Pelli
23 Crowding with conjunctions of simple features
Endel Põder
Johan Wagemans
24 Holistic crowding: Selective interference between configural representations of faces in crowded scenes
Elizabeth G. Louie
David W. Bressler
David Whitney
25 Foveal contour interactions and crowding effects at the resolution limit of the visual system
Marina V. Danilova
Valeria M. Bondarko



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