Within- and cross-modal distance information disambiguate visual size-change perception

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Battaglia, Peter W ^a   di Luca, Massimiliano ^b   Ernst, Marc O ^b   Schrater, Paul R ^c   Machulla, Tonja ^b   Kersten, Daniel ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

CHANGE PERCEPTIONS; CROSS-MODAL; DISTANCE INFORMATION; HAPTICS; KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION; OBJECT PROPERTY; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE; PROPERTY; SENSORY INFORMATION; UNDER-CONSTRAINED;

BINOCULARS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RETINA IMAGE; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

CUES; DECISION MAKING; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 77950817966     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000697     Document Type: Article

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