Focusing on an illusion: Accommodating to perceived depth?
Ocular accommodation potentially provides information about depth but there is little evidence that this information is used by the human visual system. We use the hollow-face illusion, an illusion of depth reversal, to investigate whether accommodation is linked to perceived depth. In Experiment 1...
| Publicado en: | Vision Research Vol. 154; pp. 131 - 142 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Jan2019
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