Touching for knowing : cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception /
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Amsterdam, NL :
John Benjamins Pub.,
c2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : touch and cognition / Yvette Hatwell
- 2. General characteristics of the anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions / Edouard Gentaz
- 3. Anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions : the contribution of neuropsychology and cerebral functional imagery / Edouard Gentaz and Maryse Badan
- 4. Manual exploration and haptic perception in infants / Arlette Streri
- 5. Manual exploratory procedures in children and adults / Yvette Hatwell
- 6. Handedness and manual exploration / Arlette Streri
- 7. The haptic identification of everyday life objects / Roberta Klatzky and Susan Lederman
- 8. Haptic processing of spatial and material object properties / Edouard Gentaz and Yvette Hatwell
- 9. Haptic perceptual illusions / Morton A. Heller
- 10. Congenitally blindness and spatial mental imagery / Cesare Cornoldi, Maria-Chiara Fastame and Tomaso Vecchi
- 11. Intermodal relations in infancy / Arlette Streri
- 12. Intermodal coordinations in children and adults / Yvette Hatwell
- 13. Tactile exploration in nonhuman primates / Agnès Lacreuse and Dorothy M. Fragaszy
- 14. Braille : issues on structure, teaching and assessment / Michael J. Tobin, John Greaney and Eileen Hill
- 15. The tactile reading of maps and drawings, and the access of blind people to works of art / Yvette Hatwell and Françoise Martinez-Sarrochi
- 16. Sensory substitution : limits and perspectives / Charles Lenay, Olivier Gapenne, Sylvain Hanneton, Catherine Marque and Christelle Genouëlle
- 17. New technologies empowering visually impaired people for accessing documents / Dominique Burger.