Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2003

Publication Title

Perception

Volume

32

Issue Number

12

First Page

1423

Last Page

1440

DOI

10.1068/p5019

Keywords

distance, texture discontinuities

Disciplines

Psychology

Abstract

Sinai et al (1998 Nature 395 497 - 500) showed that less distance is perceived along a ground surface that spans two differently textured regions than along a surface that is uniformly textured. We examined the effect of texture continuity on judged distance using computer-generated displays of simulated surfaces in five experiments. Discontinuities were produced by using different textures, the same texture reversed in contrast, or the same texture shifted horizontally. The simulated surface was either a ground plane or a frontoparallel plane. For all textures and both orientations, less distance was judged in the discontinuous conditions than in continuous conditions. We propose that when a surface contains a texture discontinuity, a small area adjacent to the perceived boundary is excluded from judged distances.

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Copyright © 2003 Pion Ltd..The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Perception, volume 32, pages 1423-1400, 2003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p5019.

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