A rotating drum with graduated holes allowed the observer to change the diameter of the artificial moon while viewing the real horizon or zenith moon. Nevertheless, eye elevation was consistently related to a change in the size of a nearby matched disc. Yet if the subject is required to view the object with one eye through a small apperture, thus eliminating such cues to distance, constancy fails. Kendra Cherry, MS, is an author, educational consultant, and speaker focused on helping students learn about psychology. Verywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles.
This small magnitude of effect cannot account for the magnitude of the moon illusion which is much greater. When the moon is on the horizon and surrounded by smaller objects, it appears larger.At its zenith, the moon appears much smaller because it is surrounded by the large expanse of the sky. This explanation focuses instead on the visual angle of the moon in comparison to surrounding objects. Naturally, if that is true, objects at different distances that cover an equal number of textured units are, almost by definition equal in size. According to Holway and Boring, head elevation has nothing to do with the the moon illusion, elevation of the eyes, however, does. Minneart (1940), who referred to the effect as "the Appearent Flattening of the Vault of Heaven" and studied it extensively, formed estimates of the percieved shape of the sky by asking unprejudiced observers to divide the apparent arc from zenith to horizon into two equal parts, illustrated in fig. 2) that simulated a moon in the sky, producing an image of a disc observed through a colliminating lens, which made the rays of light parallel, so that the eye reacts to them as it does to rays from an infinitely distant object. In addition he presented a conjecture as to why the sky has a flattened shape.Regardless of whether the explanation given for the effect is correct, there can be little doubt that the sky appears to be relatively flattened and that the apparent flattening is influenced by a number of factors, for example the presence of clouds, stucture of the terrain and the distance to the visible horizon (Minnaert, 1940).Despite the increasing or decreasing size of the retinal image (or visual angle) of an object as a function of distance, its apparent size remains more or less the same.
Instead, it is possible that many different factors might play a role. This odd phenomenon is called the 'Moon Illusion' and has been studied for centuries; it was first mentioned in cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets from the royal library at Nineveh in the 7th century BC and later recognized by Ptolemy, ca 150 AD. Of course this can not be done by direct comparison or one would find, just as in the case of an actual measurement, that the size is invariably the same. Rock, 1984).Rock and Ebenholtz (1959) carried out experiments in which observers had to compare two luminous line segments contained in two rectangles of different sizes, shown in fig. In other words, this data shows that the observer can be fairly accurately report both linear size, as predicted from the SDIH, and visual angle values of an object, depending on the given instructions.
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This theory is centered on the idea that when you view the moon at the horizon, you are seeing it in the presence of They saw no change in percieved size. Read our Zoth estimated that an elevated globe was about 4 percent smaller in size than a globe viewed with head and eyes level. 1.