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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Vis. 2011 May 25;11(6):10.1167/11.6.19 19. doi: 10.1167/11.6.19

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Quantifying crowding. Log threshold contrast energy is expressed as a function of the log center-to-center spacing between the target and a flanker. Two parameters of this function are of interest to us: Threshold elevation, which describes the ratio of contrast energy thresholds at ceiling and floor, and critical spacing, which is the smallest spacing with negligible threshold elevation.