Touching for knowing : cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hatwell, Yvette, Streri, Arlette, Gentaz, Edouard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2003.
Series:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 53.
Subjects:
Touch > Psychological aspects.
Visual perception.
Perceptual-motor processes.
Touch.
Touch
Psychomotor Performance
Visual Perception
Toucher > Aspect psychologique.
Perception visuelle.
Processus perceptivomoteurs.
Toucher.
Performance psychomotrice.
visual perception.
touch.
PSYCHOLOGY > Physiological Psychology.
Perceptual-motor processes
Touch > Psychological aspects
Visual perception
Sehbehinderung
Tastwahrnehmung
Tastzin.
Visuele waarneming.
Cognitie.
Perceptueel-motorische processen.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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