Aging and the perception of egocentric distance

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 813-825

  Bian, Zheng ^a   Andersen, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Distance perception; Egocentric distance; Space perception; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EGO; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; REALITY THERAPY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884343489     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030991     Document Type: Article

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