Estimating distance in real and virtual environments: Does order make a difference?

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1095-1106

  Ziemer, Christine J ^a   Plumert, Jodie M ^a   Cremer, James F ^a   Kearney, Joseph K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WALKING;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REALITY TESTING; REVERSAL LEARNING; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949170650     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.5.1096     Document Type: Article

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