身体特徴の違いが生む空間知覚の個人差

抄録

The goal of our visual system is to extract the information from the retinal images that would be useful to explore the environment. Our body, which is a “tool” to explore the environment, has a variety of individual differences. Thus if our visual system is optimized to each of our bodily features the optimization must lead the individual differences in our visual perception and cognition. In this talk I reported that the evidence of such optimization by showing the stable individual differences in the stereoscopic depth perception, namely correlation between inter-ocular distance and stereoscopic depth perception.