title: Things are deeper than they are wide: a strange error of distance estimation.
abstract: An error of distance judgement is reported: subjects judge a length seen in depth to be greater than the same length seen in width. In depth-to-width comparisons they underestimate depth, and in width-to-depth comparisons they overestimate width. This is hard to explain in both inferential and realist theories of three-dimensional perception. Two plausible accounts of the error are proposed.
mesh_terms: D003867:Depth Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004215:Distance Perception; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D009903:Optical Illusions; D009949:Orientation; D012858:Size Perception