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More than a century ago, it was shown that there is an acuity deficit in peripheral vision that can be compensated for by increasing stimulus size (Aubert and Foerster 1857; Wertheim 1894). The corresponding size-scaling approach, or cortical magnification concept, has accounted for much of the eccentricity variation in grating contrast sensitivity (Koenderink et al. 1978; Rovamo and Virsu 1979) and various other measures of acuity (e.g., Levi et al. 1985; Virsu et al. 1987). Yet this cannot be the whole truth since size-scaling fails to establish positional invariance for a wide range of visual tasks, like numerosity judgments (Parth and Rentschler 1984), discrimination of phase-modulated (Harvey et al. 1985) and mirror-symmetric images (Rentschler and Treutwein 1985), face recognition (Hübner et al. 1985), and recognition of numeric characters (Strasburger and Rentschler 1996); (Strasburger et al. 1991).
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Strasburger, H., Rentschler, I. (2007). Pattern Recognition in Direct and Indirect View. In: Osaka, N., Rentschler, I., Biederman, I. (eds) Object Recognition, Attention, and Action. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-73019-4_4
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