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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter W Battaglia, Daniel Kersten, Paul R Schrater
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3127804?pdf=render