Why do pitched horizontal lines have such a small effect on visually perceived eye level?

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 726-734

  Post, Robert B ^a   Welch, Robert B ^b   Clark, Valerie D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NASA PROGRAM BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND COUNTERMEASURES; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NASA PROGRAM BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND COUNTERMEASURES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034185322     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206919     Document Type: Article

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