“Visual crowding” is a condition that prevents some people from seeing beyond the clutter –– or recognizing people’s faces, objects or single letters inside big words. It’s a common problem among people with lazy eye, patients with traumatic brain injuries, and those of us who need reading glasses.
Until now, it was believed that visual crowding was caused by a problem in the peripheral vision.
But in a new study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, Prof. Uri Polat, Maria Lev and Dr. Oren Yehezkel of Tel Aviv University‘s Goldschleger Eye Research Institute have found that visual crowding can be traced to a different area in the eye –– the fovea.
The fovea is the sharp vision center in the retina. The way it is linked to the brain’s processor appears to have a strong influence on visual crowding.
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