Perceiving distance accurately by a directional process of integrating ground information

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6978, 2004, Pages 73-77

  Wul, Bing ^a   Ool, Teng Leng ^b   He, Zijlang J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EXTRAPOLATION; SCANNING;

ABSOLUTE DISTANCE; GROUND INFORMATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIRECTIONAL VISION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; WALKING;

DARKNESS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; VISUAL FIELDS; WALKING;

EID: 1542515159     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02350     Document Type: Article

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