Welcome to Wonderland: The Influence of the Size and Shape of a Virtual Hand On the Perceived Size and Shape of Virtual Objects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Linkenauger, Sally A ^a   Leyrer, Markus ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a,b   Mohler, Betty J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTION; SPACE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880060292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068594     Document Type: Article

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