A Demonstration of ‘Broken’ Visual Space

Ellen Svarverud, Stuart Gilson and Andrew Glennerster

PLOS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, issue 3, 1-9

Abstract: It has long been assumed that there is a distorted mapping between real and ‘perceived’ space, based on demonstrations of systematic errors in judgements of slant, curvature, direction and separation. Here, we have applied a direct test to the notion of a coherent visual space. In an immersive virtual environment, participants judged the relative distance of two squares displayed in separate intervals. On some trials, the virtual scene expanded by a factor of four between intervals although, in line with recent results, participants did not report any noticeable change in the scene. We found that there was no consistent depth ordering of objects that can explain the distance matches participants made in this environment (e.g. A>B>D yet also A

Date: 2012
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