The underestimation of egocentric distance: Evidence from frontal matching tasks

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2205-2217

  Li, Zhi ^a   Phillips, John ^a   Durgin, Frank H ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance perception; Gaze declination; Height perception; Perceptual scale expansion; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80155187476     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0170-2     Document Type: Article

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