The role of eye height in judgment of an affordance of passage under a barrier

Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-24

  Marcilly, Romaric ^a   Luyat, Marion ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE VALENCIENNES   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Affordance; Eye height ratio; Passability; Perception; Prismatic deviation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011416573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13796100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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