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- Title
Distance estimation is influenced by encoding conditions.
- Authors
Oleksiak, Anna; Mańko, Mirosława; Postma, Albert; van der Ham, Ineke J M; van den Berg, Albert V; van Wezel, Richard J A
- Abstract
It is well established that foveating a behaviorally relevant part of the visual field improves localization performance as compared to the situation where the gaze is directed elsewhere. Reduced localization performance in the peripheral encoding conditions has been attributed to an eccentricity-dependent increase in positional uncertainty. It is not known, however, whether and how the foveal and peripheral encoding conditions can influence spatial interval estimation. In this study we compare observers' estimates of a distance between two co-planar dots in the condition where they foveate the two sample dots and where they fixate a central dot while viewing the sample dots peripherally.
- Publication
PloS one, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 3, pe9918
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0009918