How Haptic Size Sensations Improve Distance Perception

Determining distances to objects is one of the most ubiquitous perceptual tasks in everyday life. Nevertheless, it is challenging because the information from a single image confounds object size and distance. Though our brains frequently judge distances accurately, the underlying computations emplo...

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Main Authors: Battaglia, Peter W. (Contributor), Kersten, Daniel (Author), Schrater, Paul R. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2011-10-03T15:31:37Z.
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