Processing speed in perceptual visual crowding

In this study, a perceptual visual crowding paradigm was designed to quantitatively assess the detection speed of (un)crowded meaningful visual targets using eye-movement responses. This paradigm was tested in individuals with dyslexia and age-matched controls. Trials were shown on a monitor with an...

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Published inJournal of vision (Charlottesville, Va.) Vol. 19; no. 3; p. 9
Main Authors Pel, Johan J. M., Boer, Aleid C., van der Steen, Johannes
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.03.2019
Subjects
Adult
Cognition - physiology
Crowding
Dyslexia - physiopathology
Eye Movements - physiology
Female
Fixation, Ocular - physiology
Humans
Male
Motion Perception - physiology
Perceptual Masking - physiology
Pilot Projects
Reaction Time - physiology
Saccades - physiology
Young Adult
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ISSN1534-7362
1534-7362
DOI10.1167/19.3.9

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Abstract In this study, a perceptual visual crowding paradigm was designed to quantitatively assess the detection speed of (un)crowded meaningful visual targets using eye-movement responses. This paradigm was tested in individuals with dyslexia and age-matched controls. Trials were shown on a monitor with an integrated eye tracker to 25 control and 11 dyslexic subjects without any known ocular problems. Each trial started with fixation of a central target. Next, four peripheral targets were shown (left, right, top, bottom), one being a duplicate of the central target. The duplicate was either surrounded by flankers (crowding trials) or shown in isolation (reference trials). The timing of the primary saccades were obtained as a measure for detection speed. The performance of the reference trials was significantly higher compared to the crowding trials (p < 0.05) and a 54% increase in saccadic reaction time (SRT) was found for the crowding trials. The linear mixed model revealed a significant effect of critical spacing and chart type. For the reference trials, no significant differences in SRT were found between dyslexic and control subjects. However, for the crowding trials, a significant increase of ∼13% in SRT was found in the dyslexic subjects. A first application of this paradigm showed that dyslexic subjects perform equally well in identifying visual targets in crowded as well as uncrowded scenes compared to controls. However, they seem to need more time to identify targets in crowded scenes, which might be related to the reading difficulties that they experience in general.
AbstractList In this study, a perceptual visual crowding paradigm was designed to quantitatively assess the detection speed of (un)crowded meaningful visual targets using eye-movement responses. This paradigm was tested in individuals with dyslexia and age-matched controls. Trials were shown on a monitor with an integrated eye tracker to 25 control and 11 dyslexic subjects without any known ocular problems. Each trial started with fixation of a central target. Next, four peripheral targets were shown (left, right, top, bottom), one being a duplicate of the central target. The duplicate was either surrounded by flankers (crowding trials) or shown in isolation (reference trials). The timing of the primary saccades were obtained as a measure for detection speed. The performance of the reference trials was significantly higher compared to the crowding trials (p < 0.05) and a 54% increase in saccadic reaction time (SRT) was found for the crowding trials. The linear mixed model revealed a significant effect of critical spacing and chart type. For the reference trials, no significant differences in SRT were found between dyslexic and control subjects. However, for the crowding trials, a significant increase of ∼13% in SRT was found in the dyslexic subjects. A first application of this paradigm showed that dyslexic subjects perform equally well in identifying visual targets in crowded as well as uncrowded scenes compared to controls. However, they seem to need more time to identify targets in crowded scenes, which might be related to the reading difficulties that they experience in general.
In this study, a perceptual visual crowding paradigm was designed to quantitatively assess the detection speed of (un)crowded meaningful visual targets using eye-movement responses. This paradigm was tested in individuals with dyslexia and age-matched controls. Trials were shown on a monitor with an integrated eye tracker to 25 control and 11 dyslexic subjects without any known ocular problems. Each trial started with fixation of a central target. Next, four peripheral targets were shown (left, right, top, bottom), one being a duplicate of the central target. The duplicate was either surrounded by flankers (crowding trials) or shown in isolation (reference trials). The timing of the primary saccades were obtained as a measure for detection speed. The performance of the reference trials was significantly higher compared to the crowding trials (p < 0.05) and a 54% increase in saccadic reaction time (SRT) was found for the crowding trials. The linear mixed model revealed a significant effect of critical spacing and chart type. For the reference trials, no significant differences in SRT were found between dyslexic and control subjects. However, for the crowding trials, a significant increase of ∼13% in SRT was found in the dyslexic subjects. A first application of this paradigm showed that dyslexic subjects perform equally well in identifying visual targets in crowded as well as uncrowded scenes compared to controls. However, they seem to need more time to identify targets in crowded scenes, which might be related to the reading difficulties that they experience in general.In this study, a perceptual visual crowding paradigm was designed to quantitatively assess the detection speed of (un)crowded meaningful visual targets using eye-movement responses. This paradigm was tested in individuals with dyslexia and age-matched controls. Trials were shown on a monitor with an integrated eye tracker to 25 control and 11 dyslexic subjects without any known ocular problems. Each trial started with fixation of a central target. Next, four peripheral targets were shown (left, right, top, bottom), one being a duplicate of the central target. The duplicate was either surrounded by flankers (crowding trials) or shown in isolation (reference trials). The timing of the primary saccades were obtained as a measure for detection speed. The performance of the reference trials was significantly higher compared to the crowding trials (p < 0.05) and a 54% increase in saccadic reaction time (SRT) was found for the crowding trials. The linear mixed model revealed a significant effect of critical spacing and chart type. For the reference trials, no significant differences in SRT were found between dyslexic and control subjects. However, for the crowding trials, a significant increase of ∼13% in SRT was found in the dyslexic subjects. A first application of this paradigm showed that dyslexic subjects perform equally well in identifying visual targets in crowded as well as uncrowded scenes compared to controls. However, they seem to need more time to identify targets in crowded scenes, which might be related to the reading difficulties that they experience in general.
Author Boer, Aleid C.
van der Steen, Johannes
Pel, Johan J. M.
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