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

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Based on an experiment "to determine whether the retinal subtense of a familiar object could act as a determiner of its apparent absolute distance," the investigators studied: (a) reduced cue situations in which all distance cues were eliminated except retinal size and (b) full cue situation where a variety of distance cues were utilized. Apparent distance was measured by having subjects throw darts to the apparent-distance position of a playing card. They concluded from their study that "It seems that relative-distance perception as a function of the relative size of a familiar object can occur without the concomitant occurrence of absolute-distance perception.".

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