The importance of a visual horizon for distance judgments under severely degraded vision

Perception

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-154

  Rand, Kristina M ^a   Tarampi, Margaret R ^a   Creem Regehr, Sarah H ^a   Thompson, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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EID: 79959533627     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p6843     Document Type: Article

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