Intrinsic spatial knowledge about terrestrial ecology favors the tall for judging distance

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Zhou, Liu ^a   Ooi, Teng Leng ^b   He, Zijiang J ^a,c  

^a B326 Science Building   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

DISTANCE RANGES; GROUND SURFACES; NATURAL SCENES; SPATIAL ABILITIES; SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TARGET LOCATION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS;

ECOLOGY;

BINOCULAR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; WALKING;

DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 85026690673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501070     Document Type: Article

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