Distance Perception - Physiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Load affects human odometry for travelled distance but not straight-line distance.

3 Jul 2009 In a simple homing task with human participants, we disassociated the outbound distance travelled from the straight-line distance between home and target. Prior to the outbound journey, which involved a detour, participants were given one of two ... Read more...

Spitting cobras adjust their venom distribution to target distance.

20 May 2009 If threatened by a human, spitting cobras defend themselves by ejecting their venom toward the face of the antagonist. Circulating head movements of the cobra ensure that the venom is distributed over the face. To assure an optimal distribution of ... Read more...

Effects of age, viewing distance and target complexity on static ocular counterroll.

May 2009 The ocular counterroll (OCR) reflex generates partially compensatory torsional eye movements during static head roll tilt. We assessed the influence of age, viewing distance and target complexity on the OCR across the age span (13-63 years; n=47), ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Distance Perception - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Amblyopia treatment. 30 Jul 2009
• Load affects human odometry for travelled distance but not straight-line distance. 3 Jul 2009
• Spitting cobras adjust their venom distribution to target distance. 20 May 2009
• Effects of age, viewing distance and target complexity on static ocular counterroll. May 2009
• A dynamic neural field model of visual working memory and change detection. 29 Apr 2009
• Guttman scale analysis of the distance vision scale. 13 Apr 2009
• The role of motor simulation in action perception: a neuropsychological case study. 5 Apr 2009
• All-distance visual acuity in eyes with a nontinted or a yellow-tinted diffractive multifocal intraocular lens. 29 Mar 2009
• Individual differences in distance perception. 23 Feb 2009
• Spatial error detection in rapid unimanual and bimanual aiming movements. 30 Jan 2009
• Binocular depth discrimination and estimation beyond interaction space. 11 Jan 2009
• Attentional vs computational complexity measures in observing paintings. 30 Dec 2008
• Pseudoaccommodative cornea treatment using the NIDEK EC-5000 CXIII excimer laser in myopic and hyperopic presbyopes. 30 Dec 2008
• The pseudoaccommodative cornea multifocal ablation with a center-distance pattern: a review. 30 Dec 2008
• Evaluation of distance and near stereoacuity and fusional vergence in intermittent exotropia. 30 Dec 2008
• Performance of presbyopia-correcting intraocular lenses in distance optical bench tests. 30 Dec 2008
• Emotional state and local versus global spatial memory. 16 Dec 2008
• Differential and co-involvement of areas of the temporal and parietal streams in visual tasks. 12 Dec 2008
• The psychology of transcending the here and now. 19 Nov 2008
• Active electrolocation in Gnathonemus petersii: behaviour, sensory performance, and receptor systems. 30 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Distance Perception'

Definition: The act of knowing or the recognition of a distance by recollective thought, or by means of a sensory process which is under the influence of set and of prior experience.

Descriptor UI: D004215

Alternative terms: Distance Perception; Distance Perceptions; Perception, Distance; Perceptions, Distance;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; genetics;

Tree Number: F02.463.593.200.390; F02.463.593.932.869.255.390;

History Note: 66