Citation

Fortenbaugh FC, Hicks JC, Hao L, Turano KA. Vision Res. 2007; 47(19): 2506-2520.

Affiliation

The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Lions Vision Center, 500 N. Broadway, 6th FL, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.visres.2007.06.012

PMID

17692884

PMCID

PMC2693205

Abstract

Three experiments examine how the peripheral visual field (PVF) mediates the development of spatial representations. In Experiment 1 participants learned and were tested on statue locations in a virtual environment while their field-of-view (FOV) was restricted to 40 degrees , 20 degrees , 10 degrees , or 0 degrees (diam). As FOV decreased, overall placement errors, estimated distances, and angular offsets increased. Experiment 2 showed large compressions but no effect of FOV for perceptual estimates of statue locations. Experiment 3 showed an association between FOV size and proprioception influence. These results suggest the PVF provides important global spatial information used in the development of spatial representations.

Language: en