Judging an unfamiliar object's distance from its retinal image size

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Sousa, Rita ^a   Brenner, Eli ^a   Smeets, Jeroen B J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Depth; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA;

DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 80054681013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.9.10     Document Type: Article

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