visual streams

Close is better: Visual perception in peripersonal space.
Closer objects are invariably perceived as bigger than farther ones and are therefore easier to detect and discriminate. This is so deeply grounded in our daily experience that no question has been raised as to whether the advantage for near objects depends on other features (e.
Elvio Blini, Alessandro Farné, Claudio Brozzoli, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane
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Peripersonal and reaching space differ: Evidence from their spatial extent and multisensory facilitation pattern
Peripersonal space (PPS) is a multisensory representation of the space near body parts facilitating interactions with the close environment. Studies on non-human and human primates agree in showing that PPS is a body part-centered representation that guides actions.
Alessandro Zanini, Ivan Patané, Elvio Blini, Romeo Salemme, Eric Koun, Alessandro Farné, Claudio Brozzoli
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Mind the depth: Visual perception of shapes is better in peripersonal space
Closer objects are invariably perceived as bigger than farther ones and are therefore easier to detect and discriminate. This is so deeply grounded in our daily experience that no question has been raised as to whether the advantage for near objects depends on other features (e.
Elvio Blini, Clément Desoche, Romeo Salemme, Alexandre Kabil, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Alessandro Farné
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