Learned versus innate tolerance to incorrect perspective

Determine whether human tolerance to incorrect perspective that arises when viewing perspective images such as paintings or motion pictures from an incorrect viewpoint is primarily a learned behavior or an innate capability.

Background

In discussing how the calibrating conic identifies the correct viewing position for a painting, the paper notes that viewers are often tolerant of the incorrect perspective seen from other viewpoints. The author observes that this tolerance also occurs in motion pictures, though rapid changes in perspective can induce discomfort (as in the dolly-zoom effect). The origin of this tolerance is explicitly stated as uncertain, raising a question at the intersection of vision science and perception.

This uncertainty is tangential to the paper’s main geometric contributions but is explicitly posed in the context of applying the calibrating conic to artworks and understanding how viewers perceive perspective when not at the ideal vantage point.