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Last Updated: Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:28

Written by Dr. Donald H. Mershon

Summary: Separate articles describe the most common sources of information ("cues") for perceiving the relative depth positions of objects in a scene and for getting an overall sense of the magnitude of such distances. However, in addition to such sources of veridical information, there are two built-in perceptual tendencies that may introduce errors into one's spatial percepts. Specifically, we tend to misperceive objects as closer than they are in reality and as closer to one another. Such errors affect a variety of situations from parking one's car to the testimony of eye witnesses.

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