Being Barbie: the size of one's own body determines the perceived size of the world.

Volume: 6, Issue: 5
Published: May 25, 2011
Abstract
A classical question in philosophy and psychology is if the sense of one's body influences how one visually perceives the world. Several theoreticians have suggested that our own body serves as a fundamental reference in visual perception of sizes and distances, although compelling experimental evidence for this hypothesis is lacking. In contrast, modern textbooks typically explain the perception of object size and distance by the combination of...
Paper Details
Title
Being Barbie: the size of one's own body determines the perceived size of the world.
Published Date
May 25, 2011
Journal
Volume
6
Issue
5
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