Blurring the boundary between models and reality: Visual perception of scale assessed by performance.
One of the primary jobs of visual perception is to build a three-dimensional representation of the world around us from our flat retinal images.These are a rich source of depth cues but no single one of them can tell us about scale (i.e., absolute depth and size).For example, the pictorial depth cues in a (perfect) scale model are identical to thos