the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
Examples of 'visual angle' in a sentence
visual angle
The visual angle of the display was calculated and compared to standard solutions.
YunKyoung Ko, Seong Dae Yun, Suk-Min Hong, Yonghyun Ha, Chang-Hoon Choi, N Jon Shah,Jörg Felder 2018, 'MR-compatible, 3.8 inch dual organic light-emitting diode (OLED) in-bore display forfunctional MRI.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6181352?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The ability to simultaneously attend to multiple objects declines with increases in the visual angle separating distant objects.
Stefanie Hüttermann, Benjamin Noël, Daniel Memmert 2017, 'Evaluating erroneous offside calls in soccer', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0174358. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The spatial distance between priming and test stimuli was varied from 0 deg to 10 deg in visual angle.
Sanae Yoshimoto, Tatsuto Takeuchi 2012, 'P3-17: Why is it Difficult to See Moving Objects in the Dusk? Visual Motion PrimingReveals Two Motion Mechanisms Functioning under Mesopic Vision', i-Perceptionhttps://doi.org/10.1068/if727. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Results showed that the head movement was greater as the visual angle of the stimulus was smaller.
Toru Maekawa, Hirohiko Kaneko, Makoto Inagami 2011, 'Effect of Visual Angle on the Head Movement Caused by Changing Binocular Disparity',i-Perceptionhttps://doi.org/10.1068/ic936. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The second one uses knowledge of size and gravity combined with ball visual angle and elevation angle.
José eGómez, Joan eLopez-Moliner 2013, 'Synergies between optical and physical variables in intercepting parabolic targets',Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00046/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)