Touching for knowing : cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2003. |
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| Description: | ix, 320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 53 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5127827 |
Table of Contents:
- -1. Prelim pages
- 0. Table of contents
- 1. List of Authors
- 2. Chapter 1. Introduction
- 3. Part 1. Some anatomical and neurophysiological bases of tactile manual perception
- 4. Chapter 2. General characteristics of the anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions
- 5. Chapter 3. Anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions
- 6. Part 2. Haptic perceptual exploration
- 7. Chapter 4. Manual exploration and haptic perception in infants
- 8. Chapter 5. Manual exploratory procedures in children and adults
- 9. Chapter 6. Handedness and manual exploration
- 10. Part 3. Haptic perceptions and spatial imaged representations
- 11. Chapter 7. The haptic identification of everyday life objects
- 12. Chapter 8. Haptic processing of spatial and material object properties
- 13. Chapter 9. Haptic perceptual illusions
- 14. Chapter 10. Congenitally blindness and spatial mental imagery
- 15. Part 4. Intermodal coordinations
- 16. Chapter 11. Intermodal relations in infancy
- 17. Chapter 12. Intermodal coordinations in children and adults
- 18. Chapter 13. Tactile exploration in nonhuman primates
- 19. Part 5. Some practical applications for visually impaired people
- 20. Chapter 14. Braille
- 21. Chapter 15. The tactile reading of maps and drawings, and the access of blind people to works of art
- 22. Chapter 16. Sensory substitution
- 23. Chapter 17. New technologies empowering visually impaired people for accessing documents
- 24. Name index
- 25. Subject index
