Touching for Knowing
Cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception
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-kinesthetic) abilities and cross-modal visual-tactual coordination are examined in infants, children and adults, and in non-human primates. These studies concern both sighted and blind persons in order to know whether early visual deprivation modifies the modes of processing space and objects. The last section is devoted to the technical devices favoring the school and social integration of the young blind: Braille reading, use of raised maps and drawings, “sensory substitution” displays, and new technologies of communication adapted for the blind. (Series B)
Table of Contents
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List of Authors | p. viii
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Touch and cognitionYvette Hatwell | pp. 1–14
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Part 1. Some anatomical and neurophysiological bases of tactile manual perception
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Chapter 2. General characteristics of the anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptionsEdouard Gentaz | pp. 17–31
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Chapter 3. Anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions: The contribution of neuropsychology and cerebral functional imageryEdouard Gentaz and Maryse Badan | pp. 33–47
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Part 2. Haptic perceptual exploration
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Chapter 4. Manual exploration and haptic perception in infantsArlette Streri | pp. 51–66
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Chapter 5. Manual exploratory procedures in children and adultsYvette Hatwell | pp. 67–82
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Chapter 6. Handedness and manual explorationArlette Streri | pp. 83–102
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Part 3. Haptic perceptions and spatial imaged representations
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Chapter 7. The haptic identification of everyday life objectsRoberta L. Klatzky and Susan Lederman | pp. 105–121
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Chapter 8. Haptic processing of spatial and material object propertiesEdouard Gentaz and Yvette Hatwell | pp. 123–159
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Chapter 9. Haptic perceptual illusionsMorton A. Heller | pp. 161–171
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Chapter 10. Congenitally blindness and spatial mental imageryCesare Cornoldi, Maria Chiara Fastame and Tomaso Vecchi | pp. 173–187
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Part 4. Intermodal coordinations
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Chapter 11. Intermodal relations in infancyArlette Streri | pp. 191–206
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Chapter 12. Intermodal coordinations in children and adultsYvette Hatwell | pp. 207–219
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Chapter 13. Tactile exploration in nonhuman primatesAgnès Lacreuse and Dorothy M. Fragaszy | pp. 221–234
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Part 5. Some practical applications for visually impaired people
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Chapter 14. Braille: Issues on structure, teaching and assessmentMichael J. Tobin, John Greaney and Eileen Hill | pp. 237–254
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Chapter 15. The tactile reading of maps and drawings, and the access of blind people to works of artYvette Hatwell and Françoise Martinez-Sarocchi | pp. 255–273
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Chapter 16. Sensory substitution: Limits and perspectivesCharles Lenay, Olivier Gapenne, Sylvain Hanneton, Catherine Marque and Christelle Genouëlle | pp. 275–292
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Chapter 17. New technologies empowering visually impaired people for accessing documentsDominique Burger | pp. 293–303
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Name index | pp. 305–315
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Subject index | pp. 317–320
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