Touching for knowing : cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception / edited by Yvette Hatwell, Arlette Streri, Edouard Gentaz.
The dominance of vision is so strong in sighted people that touch is sometimes considered as a minor perceptual modality. However, touch is a powerful tool which contributes significantly to our knowledge of space and objects. Its intensive use by blind persons allows them to reach the same levels o...
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| Other title: | Toucher pour connaître. English. |
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| Language: | English French |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2003.
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| Series: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 53. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: touch and cognition / Yvette Hatwell
- General characteristics of the anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions / Edouard Gentaz
- Anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic peceptions: the contribution of neuropsychology and cerebral functional imagery / Edouard Gentaz and Maryse Badan
- Manual exploration and haptic perception in infants / Arlette Streri
- Manual exploratory procedures in children and adults / Yvette Hatwell
- Handedness and manual exploration / Arlette Streri
- The haptic identification of everyday life objects / Roberta Klatzky and Susan Lederman
- Haptic processing of spatial and material object properties / Edouard Gentaz and Yvette Hatwell
- Haptic perceptual illusions / Morton A. Heller.
- Congenitally blindness and spatial mental imagery / Cesare Cornoldi, Maria-Chiara Fastame and Tomaso Vecchi
- Intermodel relations in infancy / Arlette Streri
- Intermodal coordinations in children and adults / Yvette Hatwell
- Tactile exploration in nonhuman primates / Agnès Lacreuse and Dorothy M. Fragaszy
- Braille: issues on structure, teaching and assessment / Michael J. Tobin, John Greaney and Eileen Hill
- The tactile reading of maps and drawings, and the access of blind people to works of art / Yvette Hatwell and Françoise Martinez-Sarrochi
- Sensory substitution: limits and perspectives / Charles Lenay [and others]
- New technologies empowering visually impaired people for accessing documents / Dominique Burger.