If a very large football player is standing on the other sideline of a football field,he will only be projected onto a small area of your retina.Indeed,it will be much smaller than the area projected by the elementary school-aged child standing next to you.Yet you perceive the football player to be taller than the child because of:

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Size constancy allows us to perceive objects as the same size, even when they are projected onto different areas of our retina. In this case, our brain perceives the football player as taller than the child because we know that a football player is typically larger in size than an elementary school-aged child, regardless of the size of their retinal projection.

If a Very Large Football Player Is Standing on the Other