If you look at a faraway street sign with first your left eye and then your right eye, the images you see look virtually identical. But if you look at your finger held just in front of your nose one eye at a time, the two images you see look very different. This phenomenon is an example of which distance cue?

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Binocular disparity refers to the difference in images between the two eyes due to their different positions on the head. This disparity is more noticeable when looking at objects that are close, like a finger in front of the nose, compared to faraway objects like a street sign.

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