Duck! Scaling the height of a horizontal barrier to body height

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1338-1349

  Stefanucci, Jeanine K ^a   Geuss, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

BIOMECHANICS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77957669980     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.5.1338     Document Type: Article

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