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Subjects were exposed to motion pictures of various objects presented at different speeds, both approaching and receding. A breakdown in size constancy occurred significantly more frequently when the signs were receding than when they were approaching and significantly more often as projection speed increased. Since such specific cues as convergence and accommodation were not activated, unless reflexively, it was inferred that a generalized perceptual set rather than the reversal of specific cues accounted for the results.
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Wagoner, K.S., Goodson, F.E. & Nunez, A.E. The shrink phenomenon. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 16, 403–404 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329580
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