Perceived relative distance on the ground affected by the selection of depth information

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 707-713

  Wu, Jun ^a   He, Zijiang J ^a   Ooi, Teng Leng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MONOCULAR VISION; VISION;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 48049115032     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.4.707     Document Type: Article

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