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When O views a blank triangle of light under completely reduced conditions, he is able to use information about the size of this visual stimulus conveyed via the haptic modality when he is attempting to judge the absolute distance of the visual stimulus. However, distance is consistently underesti-mated in this situation. When haptically-indicated size is held constant, judged distance varies inversely with retinalsubtense, even though the different retinal subtenses are viewed by different Os. A variant of the size-distance invariance hypothesis also appears to hold in these circumstances.
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Coltheart, M. The influence of haptic size information upon visual judgments of absolute distance. Perception & Psychophysics 5, 143–144 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03209544
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