TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hatwell,Yvette
AU  - Streri,Arlette
AU  - Gentaz,Edouard
TI  - Touching for knowing: cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception 
T2  - Advances in consciousness research,
SN  - 1423772296
AV  - BF275 .T69 2003eb
U1  - 152.1/82 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Pub.
KW  - Touch
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Perceptual-motor processes
KW  - Psychomotor Performance
KW  - Visual Perception
KW  - Toucher
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - Perception visuelle
KW  - Processus perceptivomoteurs
KW  - Performance psychomotrice
KW  - visual perception
KW  - aat
KW  - touch
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Physiological Psychology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Sehbehinderung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Tastwahrnehmung
KW  - Tastzin
KW  - gtt
KW  - Visuele waarneming
KW  - Cognitie
KW  - Perceptueel-motorische processen
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction: touch and cognition / Yvette Hatwell -- General characteristics of the anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions / Edouard Gentaz -- Anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic peceptions: the contribution of neuropsychology and cerebral functional imagery / Edouard Gentaz and Maryse Badan -- Manual exploration and haptic perception in infants / Arlette Streri -- Manual exploratory procedures in children and adults / Yvette Hatwell -- Handedness and manual exploration / Arlette Streri -- The haptic identification of everyday life objects / Roberta Klatzky and Susan Lederman -- Haptic processing of spatial and material object properties / Edouard Gentaz and Yvette Hatwell -- Haptic perceptual illusions / Morton A. Heller; Congenitally blindness and spatial mental imagery / Cesare Cornoldi, Maria-Chiara Fastame and Tomaso Vecchi -- Intermodel relations in infancy / Arlette Streri -- Intermodal coordinations in children and adults / Yvette Hatwell -- Tactile exploration in nonhuman primates / Agnès Lacreuse and Dorothy M. Fragaszy -- Braille: issues on structure, teaching and assessment / Michael J. Tobin, John Greaney and Eileen Hill -- The tactile reading of maps and drawings, and the access of blind people to works of art / Yvette Hatwell and Françoise Martinez-Sarrochi -- Sensory substitution: limits and perspectives / Charles Lenay [and others] -- New technologies empowering visually impaired people for accessing documents / Dominique Burger; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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
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