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Published online 21 February 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060220-6
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Is it small or just far away?
Virtual-reality room shows how we can be blind to the size of our environment.
We've all heard that seeing is believing, but scientists know that it may be the other way around.
Researchers have constructed strange environments in order to pick apart how our eyes and brain work together to present us with an understanding of what's going on around us.
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