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Does My Step Look Big In This? A Visual Illusion Leads To Safer Stepping Behaviour
BACKGROUND: Tripping is a common factor in falls and a typical safety strategy to avoid tripping on steps or stairs is to increase foot clearance over the step edge. In the present study we asked whether the perceived height of a step could be increased using a visual illusion and whether this would...
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Public Library of Science
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19240790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004577 |