Psychological influences on distance estimation in a virtual reality environment

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Takahashi, Kohske ^a   Meilinger, Tobias ^a,b   Watanabe, Katsumi ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Distance perception; Object geometry; Personal space; Spatial perception; Virtual reality environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORIENTING RESPONSE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84884686520     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00580     Document Type: Article

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