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Auditory perception; Binocular vision; Depth cues; Depth information; Gibsonian approach to depth; Haptic perception; Motion parallax; Motion perception; Perception for action; Shape perception; Space perception; Tactile perception; Three-dimensional (3D) perception; Two-dimensional (2D) retinal images
Edwin Abbott Abbott takes us to a journey into the two-dimensional world in his 1884 novella, “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.” The third dimension, commonly considered as depth, is missed physically as well as perceptually in Flatland; besides that perception of the second dimension for the dwellers of Flatland is at some point between nowhere to bind. In fact, this situation could be generalized as impracticability of perceiving all the dimensions precisely in a physical environment unless you get out of all those dimensions composed the environment and look from a new dimension. For instance, imagine a piece of paper is resembling Abbott’s Flatland. While looking...
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Gençer, E. (2019). Depth Perception. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1397-1
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