Is Depth Perception Learned?
– Depth cues [Monocular cues, Binocular cues] – Muscular Cues [Accommodation, Convergence] – Stereoscopic Vision [Retinal disparity, Random dot stereograms] – With one eye – Pictorial Depth Cues [Linear perspective. Relative size. Light and shadow, Overlap/interposition, Texture gradients, Aerial perspective, Relative motion/ motion parallax] – Pictorial depth cues are not entirely universal – How do the depth perception cues relate to daily experience? [Apparent distance, The apparent distance hypothesis] T E X T Depth Perception. Depth perception is the ability to see three-dimensional space and to accurately judge distances. Without depth perception, you would be unable to successfully drive a car or ride a bicycle, play catch, shoot baskets, thread a needle, or simply navigate around a room. The world would look like a flat surface. A. Is depth perception learned? Some psychologists (nativists) hold that depth perception is inborn. Others (the empiricists) view it as learned. Most
