Blurring of the senses: Common cues for distance perception in diverse sensory systems

Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-22

  Lewis, J E ^a   Maler, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depth perception; Human vision; Psychophysics; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRICITY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0037130573     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00220-8     Document Type: Article

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