Verification of Emmert's law in actual and virtual environments

Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 325-329

  Nakamizo, Sachio ^a   Imamura, Mariko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distance perception; Emmert's law; Size perception; Size distance invariance hypothesis; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

AFTERIMAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EMMERT LAW; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; THEORY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AFTERIMAGE; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 15244339969     PISSN: 13453475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2114/jpa.23.325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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