Perception.
Publisher:
Pion.. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, Inc. (2015)
Frequency: Monthly
Country: United States
Language: English
Start Year:1972 -
ISSN:
0301-0066 (Print)
1468-4233 (Electronic)
0301-0066 (Linking)
1468-4233 (Electronic)
0301-0066 (Linking)
Impact Factor
1.7
2022
| NLM ID: | 0372307 |
| (DNLM): | P07640000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01788163 |
| Coden: | PCTNBA |
| Classification: | W1 PE78G |
Horses are sensitive to pictorial depth cues. In an attempt to demonstrate whether horses could make use of pictorial cues to depth, two were trained initially to make a relative-line-length discrimination between two lines placed one above the other. Psychophysical measurement of their discrimination thresholds showed that from a viewing distance of approximately 160 cm they could reliably distinguish a lower line of 10 cm from an upper one of 14 cm. In the second phase of the experiment, two lines of equal length were superimposed on a photograph of a set of railway tracks with many pictorial cues to depth, or a photograph of a pastoral...