Abstract

ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE published: 16 November 2009 BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE doi: 10.3389/neuro.08.049.2009 Visuomotor crowding: the resolution of grasping in cluttered scenes 1,2 1 1,2 Paul F. Bulakowski *, Robert B. Post and David Whitney The Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA The Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA, USA Edited by: Reaching toward a cup of coffee while reading the newspaper becomes exceedingly diffi cult Agnes Gruart, when other objects are nearby. Although much is known about the precision of visual perception University Pablo de Olavide, Spain in cluttered scenes, relatively little is understood about acting within these environments – the Reviewed by: spatial resolution of visuomotor behavior. When the number and density of objects overwhelm Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA visual processing, crowding results, which serves as a bottleneck for object recognition. Muriel Boucart, CNRS-University Lille, Despite crowding, featural information of the ensemble persists, thereby supporting texture France perception. While texture is benefi cial for visual perception, it is relatively uninformative for *Correspondence: guiding the metrics of grasping. Therefore, it would be adaptive if the visual and visuomotor Paul F. Bulakowski, Sight Enhancement systems utilized the clutter differently. Using an