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Judgements of time to contact are affected by rate of appearance of visible texture

More fine-grained texture becomes visible if the distance between an observer and an object or surface is reduced. This article illustrates with a schematic example that the inverse rate of the relative appearance of visible texture provides information about time to contact if the observer has a constant visual acuity and the texture has a certain scale-independent structure. An experiment is reported in which texture appearance was manipulated. Participants were asked to make forced-choice time-to-contact judgements. A small but significant effect indicates that the judgements were affected by the rate of appearance of the texture. It is concluded that observers use this type of information.