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Angles of shadows as cues for judging the distance of shadow casting objects
1Western Illinois University, Macomb 61455, USA. mfbpa@wiu.edu
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|July 7, 2000
Abstract:
40 participants were presented the six possible comparisons of four pictures of cylinders and their shadows. For each comparison, each participant was to decide which cylinder was most distant from a reference point. Overall 15 of the participants got all six judgments correct, an outcome that is exceedingly unlikely by chance.