Perceptual scale expansion: An efficient angular coding strategy for locomotor space

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1856-1870

  Durgin, Frank H ^a   Li, Zhi ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D perception: Depth and shape from X; 3D perception: Space Perception; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79961197896     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0143-5     Document Type: Article

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