Going for distance and going for speed: Effort and optical variables shape information for distance perception from observation to response

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1015-1035

  Hajnal, Alen ^a   Bunch, David A ^a   Kelty Stephen, Damian G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular declination; Distance perception; Effort; Geographical slant; Motor simulation; Response time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900436869     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0629-z     Document Type: Article

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