Being Barbie: the size of one's own body determines the perceived size of the world.

As you probably know, a lot happens in our brains between what we see (the photons that hit our retinas) and what we actually "see" (the scene that we represent in our minds). Even the size and distance of objects is open to interpretation, primarily based on cues in the environment. But do we also use our own bodies as size cues? In this study, the researchers used tiny and giant fake bodies to give people the illusion that they were larger or smaller than they actually are (see Figure 1 ab