Individual differences in distance perception

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1662, 2009, Pages 1665-1669

  Jackson, Russell E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrophobia; Descent illusion; Distance perception; Evolved navigation theory; Individual differences; Navigation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSPORTATION;

ACROPHOBIA; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FALLING; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; PHOBIA; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEAR; HUMANS; PHOBIC DISORDERS;

EID: 66349085069     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0004     Document Type: Article

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