Sex and age modulate the visual perception of distance

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作者
Norman, J. Farley [1 ]
Dowell, Catherine J. [1 ]
Higginbotham, Alexia J. [1 ]
Fedorka, Nicholas W. [1 ]
Norman, Hideko F. [1 ]
机构
[1] Western Kentucky Univ, Dept Psychol Sci, Ogden Coll Sci & Engn, Bowling Green, KY 42101 USA
关键词
3D perception: Space Perception; aging; Spatial Vision; PERCEIVED EGOCENTRIC DISTANCE; LARGE OPEN-FIELD; MENTAL ROTATION; EXOCENTRIC DISTANCE; SPATIAL ABILITY; 3-D SHAPE; OLDER MEN; SPACE; TESTOSTERONE; ORIENTATION;
D O I
10.3758/s13414-018-1542-7
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the ability of 28 younger and older adults to visually bisect distances in depth both indoors and outdoors; half of the observers were male and half were female. Observers viewed 15-m and 30-m distance extents in four different environmental settings (two outdoor grassy fields and an indoor hallway and atrium) and were required to adjust the position of a marker to place it at the midpoint of each stimulus distance interval. Overall, the observers' judgments were more accurate indoors than outdoors. In outdoor environments, many individual observers exhibited perceptual compression of farther distances (e.g., these observers placed the marker closer than the actual physical midpoints of the stimulus distance intervals). There were significant modulatory effects of both age and sex upon the accuracy and precision of the observers' judgments. The judgments of the male observers were more accurate than those of the female observers and they were less influenced by environmental context. In addition, the accuracies of the younger observers' judgments were less influenced by context than those of the older observers. With regard to the precision of the observers' judgments, the older females exhibited much more variability across repeated judgments than the other groups of observers (younger males, younger females, and older males). The results of our study demonstrate that age and sex are important variables that significantly affect the visual perception of distance.
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页码:2022 / 2032
页数:11
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