Increasing confidence in vergence as a cue to distance

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1414, 1999, Pages 39-44

  Tresilian, James R ^a   Mon Williams, Mark ^a,b   Kelly, Benjamin M ^c  

^a Department of Human Movement Studies ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distance estimates; Fixation distance; Kinaesthetic information; Perception; Visual cues

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE;

EID: 0033531232     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0601     Document Type: Article

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