When we look at a picture, we see the far away landscape more in far mode, and the central nearby objects more in near mode. This suggests that our peripheral vision tends more to see things in far mode:
Now I want to show a bunch of people a movie battle-scene with people doing heroic things in the background and people doing pragmatic things in the foreground, then another one with an identical plot but reversed focus, and have them rate 'em along a variety of subjective dimensions.
Now I want to show a bunch of people a movie battle-scene with people doing heroic things in the background and people doing pragmatic things in the foreground, then another one with an identical plot but reversed focus, and have them rate 'em along a variety of subjective dimensions.
Any athlete competing at the cardiovascular edge could have told the researchers this without any further investigation.