Losing sight of the bigger picture: Peripheral field loss compresses representations of space

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 2506-2520

  Fortenbaugh, Francesca C ^a   Hicks, John C ^a   Hao, Lei ^a   Turano, Kathleen A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance perception; Memory guided walking; Peripheral visual field; Spatial representation; Visual field loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; WALKING;

EID: 34548406117     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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