Effects of two kinds of distance information on visual judgments of absolute size

Max Coltheart

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Effects of two kinds of distance information on visual judgments of absolute size

Max Coltheart^*

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IF a person is asked to make a judgment of the distance between him and some object which he is viewing, and if he has no cues on which to base such a judgment, it seems plausible to suppose that he could make the judgment if he knew how large the stimulus actually was. Whether or not subjects can take size information into account when making visual judgments of absolute distance in completely reduced conditions has been the subject of some controversy^1-5. Recent results⁶ have suggested, however, that this does happen, whether size information is contributed by past experience with the visual stimulus, by means of a haptic comparison-object, or verbally.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	388
Number of pages	1
Journal	Nature
Volume	221
Issue number	5178
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/221388a0
Publication status	Published - 25 Jan 1969
Externally published	Yes

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