Expert performance by athletes in the verbal estimation of spatial extents does not alter their perceptual metric of space

i-Perception

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 357-367

  Durgin, Frank H ^a   Leonard Solis, Keenan ^a   Masters, Owen ^a   Schmelz, Brittany ^a   Li, Zhi ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance estimation; Egocentric distance; Height perception; Non euclidean; Spatial biases; Visual space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865068454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0498     Document Type: Article

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