Touching for knowing : cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception /
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Uniform title: | Toucher pour connaître. English. |
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Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2003. |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 320 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 53 Advances in consciousness research ; v. 53. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143691 |
Other authors / contributors: | Hatwell, Yvette. Streri, Arlette. Gentaz, Edouard. |
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ISBN: | 1423772296 9781423772293 9027296383 9789027296382 1282255355 9781282255357 9027251851 9789027251855 1588114236 9781588114235 902725186X 9789027251862 1588114244 9781588114242 9786612255359 6612255358 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | 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. |
Other form: | Print version: Toucher pour connaître. English. Touching for knowing. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2003 9027251851 1588114236 |
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