Looking at perspective pictures from too far, too close, and just right

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 448-461

  Juricevic, Igor ^a   Kennedy, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constancy; Perspective; Picture perception; Spatial perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746641813     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.135.3.448     Document Type: Article

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