Over the last 20 years research has been done on the question of how egocentric distances,
ie, the subjectively reported distance from a human observer to an object, are perceived in …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

Both the action-specific perception account and the ecological approach to perception–
action emphasize the role of action in perception. However, the action-specific perception …

Although it is commonly accepted that depth perception in augmented reality (AR) displays
is distorted, we have yet to isolate which properties of AR affect people's ability to correctly …

A growing literature argues that wearing a heavy backpack makes slopes look steeper and
distances seem longer (eg, Proffitt, 2006). To test for effects of experimental demand …

In this chapter, we present and provide empirical support for an embodied approach to
visual perception. We propose that visual information is scaled by the perceiver's phenotype …

A chief goal of perception is to help us navigate our environment. According to a rich and
ambitious theory of spatial perception, the visual system achieves this goal not by aiming to …

Emerging demonstrations of the malleability of distance perception in affective situations
require an organizing structure. These effects can be predicted by approach and avoidance …

The concept of modularity has loomed large in philosophy of psychology since the early
1980s, following the publication of Fodor's landmark book The Modularity of Mind (1983). In …

Experiments take place in a physical environment but also a social environment.
Generalizability from experimental manipulations to more typical contexts may be limited by …