p261fig06.11 If the sizes and distances between the letters stays the same as they are received by more peripheral parts of the retina, then all three letters may be covered by a single shroud, thereby preventing their individual perception and recognition.<BR>||  Crowding: visible objects and confused recognition. log compression and center-surround processing cause...  input same eccentricity, surface, object shroud, crowding threshold.  object shrouds merge!