Retinal blur and the perception of egocentric distance

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Vishwanath, Dhanraj ^a   Blaser, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth; Egocentric distance; Familiar size cues; Perception; Retinal blur; Slant; Tilt shift miniaturization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; RETINA;

EID: 79955138659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.10.26     Document Type: Article

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