These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Gravity as a monocular cue for perception of absolute distance and/or absolute size.
    Author: Watson JS, Banks MS, von Hofsten C, Royden CS.
    Journal: Perception; 1992; 21(1):69-76. PubMed ID: 1528705.
    Abstract:
    When the motion of an object is influenced by gravity (eg free fall, pendulum, wave motion), that influence may provide a cue to computing the absolute distance and/or size of the object. Formal analysis supports the claim that the distance and size of moving objects are generally computable with reference to the gravitational component of motion. Informal evidence from judgments of realism in films is consistent with this gravity-cue hypothesis.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]