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Touching for knowing : cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 53. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 of knowledge and cognition as their sighted peers. In this book, specialized researchers present the recent state of knowledge about the cognitive functioning of touch. After an analysis of the neurophysiology and neuropsychology of touch, exploratory manual behaviors, intramodal haptic (tactual-kines. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 320 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1423772296 9781423772293 9027296383 9789027296382 1282255355 9781282255357 9786612255359 6612255358 |
| ISSN: | 1381-589X ; |