From the most Fleeting of Glimpses: On the Time Course for the Extraction of Distance Information

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1446-1453

  Gajewski, Daniel A ^a   Philbeck, John W ^a   Pothier, Stephen ^a   Chichka, David ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blind walking; distance perception; navigation; real world environments; scene perception; time course; viewing duration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WALKING;

CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 78650023946     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610381508     Document Type: Article

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