Humans can use optic flow to estimate distance of travel

Vision Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 213-219

  Redlick, Fara P ^a   Jenkin, Michael ^a,b   Harris, Laurence R ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distance estimation; Optic flow; Self motion; Vection; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVEL; VELOCITY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION TEST; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

ADULT; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0035054434     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00243-1     Document Type: Article

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