Body ownership affects visual perception of object size by rescaling the visual representation of external space

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1414-1428

  van der Hoort, Björn ^a   Ehrsson, H Henrik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3D perception; Cue integration; Illusion; Multisensory processing; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL SPACE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; OWNERSHIP; PERSONAL SPACE; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84904338280     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0664-9     Document Type: Article

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