Thumb rule of visual angle: a new confirmation.
The classical thumb rule of visual angle was reexamined. Hence, the visual angle was measured as a function of a thumb's width and the distance between eye and thumb. The measurement of a thumb's width when held at arm's length was taken on 67 second-year students of psychology. The visual angle was about 2 degrees as R. P. O'Shea confirmed in 1991. Also, we confirmed a linear relationship between the size of a thumb's width at arm's length and the visual angle.
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Laboratori de Psicologia Experimental, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain.
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D013028:Space Perception; D013933:Thumb; D014796:Visual Perception