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  2. Visual crowding - Wikipedia

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    Visual crowding is the inability to view a target stimulus distinctly when presented in a clutter. Crowding impairs the ability to discriminate object features and contours among flankers, which in turn impairs people's ability to respond appropriately to the target stimulus.

  3. Crowding - Wikipedia

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    Crowding (or visual crowding) is a perceptual phenomenon where the recognition of objects presented away from the fovea is impaired by the presence of other neighbouring objects (sometimes called "flankers"). [1]

  4. Visual acuity - Wikipedia

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    Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of vision, but technically rates an animal's ability to recognize small details with precision. Visual acuity depends on optical and neural factors. Optical factors of the eye influence the sharpness of an image on its retina. Neural factors include the health and functioning of the retina, of ...

  5. Multiple object tracking - Wikipedia

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    As an object's speed is increased, temporal crowding can result and prevent tracking well before the tracking speed limit is reached. [12] [13] Temporal crowding refers to an impairment caused by distractors visiting a target's former location within a short interval. The phenomenon was revealed in a study with a display where distractors were ...

  6. Histogram - Wikipedia

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    Histogram of travel time (to work), US 2000 census. Area under the curve equals 1. This diagram uses Q/total/width (crowding) from the table. The height of a block represents crowding which is defined as - percentage per horizontal unit.

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    There’s no single explanation for why addiction treatment is mired in a kind of scientific dark age, why addicts are denied the help that modern medicine can offer. Family doctors tend to see addicts as a nuisance or a liability and don’t want them crowding their waiting rooms. In American culture, self-help runs deep.

  8. Research in dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    The visual theory represents a traditional perspective of dyslexia, as being the result of a visual impairment creating problems when processing information from letters and words from a written text. This includes visual processing problems such as binocular, poor vergence, and visual crowding. The visual theory does not deny the possibility ...

  9. Sign in to AOL Desktop Gold and manage your usernames

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    3. On the Sign On screen, click the small arrow pointing down to bring up a list of all stored usernames. 4. Select the desired username by clicking on it. Click Continue once you selected the username.