Touch and Blindness Psychology and Neuroscience

Research on touch and blindness has undergone rapid transformation in recent years, with dramatic developments in technology designed to provide assistance to those who are blind, and advancements in robotics that demand haptic interfaces. Touch and Blindness approaches the study of the topic from t...

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Main Authors Heller, Morton A., Ballesteros, Soledad
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Mahwah, N.J Psychology Press 2006
Taylor and Francis
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Blinden. gtt
Blindness
Blindness > Psychological aspects
Cognitive Science
Mentale representatie. gtt
Perception
Psychological aspects
Tastzin. gtt
Touch
Touch > Psychological aspects
Reference Hypothesis
Cross-modal Priming
HI
Vice Versa
Striate Cortex
Late Blind Subjects
Tactile Form Perception
Early Blind Subjects
Horizontal Vertical Illusion
Sighted Subjects
Extrastriate Visual Cortex
Implicit Memory
Tactile Tasks
Reference Cues
Vantage Point
Visual Deprivation
Hit False Alarms
BODY CENTERED REFERENCE FRAMES
Occipital Cortex
Mueller Lyer Illusion
Haptic Pictures
Gap Detection Task
External Reference Cues
Haptic Exploration
Haptic Object
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Approaches to Touch and Blindness -- I PSYCHOLOGY -- 2 Processing Spatial Information From Touch and Movement: Implications From and for Neuroscience -- 3 Picture Perception and Spatial Cognition in Visually Impaired People -- 4 Form, Projection and Pictures for the Blind -- 5 Haptic Priming and Recognition in Young Adults, Normal Aging, and Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence for Dissociable Memory Systems -- 6 Tactile Virtual Reality: A New Method Applied to Haptic Exploration -- II NEUROSCIENCE -- 7 Do Visual and Tactile Object Representations Share the Same Neural Substrate? -- 8 Cerebral Cortical Processing of Tactile Form: Evidence from Functional Neuroimaging -- 9 The Role of Visual Cortex in Tactile Processing: A Metamodal Brain -- 10 Conclusions: Touch and Blindness -- Author Index -- Subject Index