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Despite these results, the
familiar-size cue may be more
an intellectual judgment than a
genuine perceptual cue to
distance. One can figure out
that a playing card that looms
so large in oneΓÇÖs field of view
must be rather near. But that
does not necessarily mean that
it is perceived as near.
Furthermore, it is unlikely that
familiar size is a distance cue
of much importance in daily
life, when other cues are
available. Experiments on this
question are inconclusive. If
we view an object of abnormal
size under natural conditions,
such as a dollhouse among a
row of suburban homes, for
example, we immediately
detect its abnormality rather
than reevaluate its distance or
that of nearby homes.
Many textbooks also mention
"height in the field" as a
pictorial cue, but the argument
used to support it is circular.
Ordinarily, the farther away an
object is, the higher will be its
image in a picture or its
projection to the eye. But this is
true only for objects that rest
on the ground, so that "height"
could be a cue to depth only if
the observer already perceived
a ground plane, which, by
definition, recedes into the
distance. Even if the argument
were not circular, "height in
the field" would be an
ambiguous cue to depth because
the lower the location of an
object is in a plane overhead,
such as a cloudy sky or ceiling,
the farther away it is.