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
List of Authors
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viii
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1–14
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Part 1. Some anatomical and neurophysiological bases of tactile manual perception
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17–31
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33–47
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Part 2. Haptic perceptual exploration
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51–66
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67–82
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83–102
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Part 3. Haptic perceptions and spatial imaged representations
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105–121
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123–159
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161–171
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173–187
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Part 4. Intermodal coordinations
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191–206
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207–219
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221–234
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Part 5. Some practical applications for visually impaired people
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237–254
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255–273
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275–292
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293–303
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Name index
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305–315
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Subject index
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317–320
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