Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Task set determines the amount of crowding.

Anke Huckauf1

  • 1Faculty of Media, Bauhaus-University of Weimar, Bauhausstr. 11, 99423, Weimar, Germany. anke.huckauf@medien.uni-weimar.de

Psychological Research
|May 25, 2006
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Influence of Stimulus Layout and Social Presence on Deception-Related Eye Movements and Blinks in the Concealed Information Test.

Journal of eye movement research·2026
Same author

Fixations, blinks, and pupils differentially capture individual and interpersonal dynamics in role-asymmetric mutual gaze interaction.

Scientific reports·2026
Same author

Reinvestigating endogenous attention and perceived duration of peripheral stimuli: Differential effects for neutral versus valid and invalid cues.

Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance·2025
Same author

Transient attention does not alter the eccentricity effect in estimation of duration.

Attention, perception & psychophysics·2023
Same author

Small Pupils Lead to Lower Judgements of a Person's Characteristics for Exaggerated, but Not for Realistic Pupils.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)·2022
Same author

How sign language expertise can influence the effects of face masks on non-linguistic characteristics.

Cognitive research: principles and implications·2022
Same journal

Poorer event-based compared to time-based prospective memory in a computerized household chores task.

Psychological research·2026
Same journal

Self-other discrimination in face recognition depending on personal familiarity: investigating a sample consisting of Japanese and Han Chinese women.

Psychological research·2026
Same journal

Sounds of creativity: musical, creative, and language factors associated with singing and creative singing.

Psychological research·2026
Same journal

Does sport expertise bridge the sex gap in mental rotation? Bayesian evidence for the critical role of visuospatial demands.

Psychological research·2026
Same journal

The development of an optimal learning strategy for high-similarity categories: the effect of example sequence on children's category learning.

Psychological research·2026
Same journal

Musical training increases anticipatory responding and predictive control in sequence learning.

Psychological research·2026
See all related articles

Crowding effects, or feature interactions, are influenced by task goals, not just stimulus features. This research shows higher-level cognitive processes, not automatic ones, drive these visual perception effects.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception
  • Human Information Processing

Background:

  • Crowding effects describe how adjacent stimuli hinder perception of a target.
  • The automaticity versus controlled processing of crowding effects remains debated.
  • Understanding crowding is crucial for visual processing and attention studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether crowding effects emerge from automatic processes or higher-level controlled processing.
  • To determine how target definition (form vs. category) influences crowding.
  • To examine the role of task sets in modulating crowding.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted comparing performance in target detection, localization, and identification.
  • Targets were flanked by similar items within strings.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Target definition varied between form-based and category-based.

    • Main Results:

    • Detection and localization were superior for form-defined targets compared to category-defined targets.
    • Identification performance was better for category-defined targets than form-defined targets.
    • Performance differences indicate task-dependent processing of crowding.

    Conclusions:

    • Crowding effects are not solely based on stimulus presentation parameters.
    • Higher-level cognitive processes, activated by specific task sets, significantly influence crowding.
    • Task settings, such as the defining target feature, modulate the nature of crowding.