The retinal size of a familiar object as a determiner of apparent distance.

Gogel, Walter C.; Hartman, Bryce O.; Harker, George S.

doi:10.1037/h0093772

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“…Later research produced findings which suggested that familiar size could be considered as the primary cue differentiating between relative and absolute distance (Gogel, Hartman, & Harker, 1957).…”

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Range estimation training and practice: A state of the art review.

Thompson¹

1982

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Range estimation training and practice: A state of the art review.

Thompson¹

1982

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“…The rationale for considering relative size as a cue to relative distance is based on the fact that the same object produces a different difference in visual directions at various distances. Its effectiveness has been well documented (e.g., Epstein, 1961;Gogel, Hartman, & Harker, 1957;Hochberg & Hochberg, 1952;Hochberg & McAlister, 1955;Ono, 1966Ono, , 1969, although the relevant variable in those studies was thought to be different retinal image sizes. In other words, whenever 5 has information concerning, or assumes, stimulus identity (i.e., that the stimuli presented are the same stimulus or of constant linear size), variations in the perceived angular size of the stimulus may serve as a relative size cue to relative distance.…”

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Oculomotor adjustments and size-distance perception

Komoda

Ono

1974

Perception & Psychophysics

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The relationship between perceived size and distance and oculomotor adjustments were assessed in two experiments. In both experiments, Ss were required to make scalar linear size, angular size, and distance judgments of stimuli subtending a constant retinal image size at different levels of convergence. The results of the first experiment indicate that the perceived linear size, angular size, and distance of the stimulus decreased with increased convergence, the decrease in perceived linear size being greater than that of perceived angular size. While again showing a decrease in perceived linear and angular size, the results of the second experiment also show that there was a smaller decrease in perceived distance with increased convergence when Ss continued to view the stimulus as convergence was changed than when they did not view the stimulus as convergence was changed. The implications these results have for size and distance perception are discussed.

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“…They claimed, in fact, that familiar size was one of the cues' to absolute distance. Their experiments were subsquently shown by Gogel, Hartman, and Harker (1957) to be methodologically inadequate, and for some time thereafter there was considerable dispute concerning the familiar-size cue to absolute distance.…”

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The effect of verbal size information upon visual judgments of absolute distance

Coltheart

1971

Perception & Psychophysics

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When an 0 views a blank triangle of light under completely reduced conditions, he is able to make use of verbally conveyed information about the size of this stimulus when he is attempting to judge the absolute distance of the stimulus. Although between-Os variance is rather large in this situation, group mean distance estimates are highly veridical. This is further evidence for the view that, when the 0 is given a retinal subtense,

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The retinal size of a familiar object as a determiner of apparent distance.

Cited by 42 publications

References 3 publications

Range estimation training and practice: A state of the art review.

Range estimation training and practice: A state of the art review.

Oculomotor adjustments and size-distance perception

The effect of verbal size information upon visual judgments of absolute distance

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