Touch and Blindness Psychology and Neuroscience

• Main Authors: Heller, Morton A., Ballesteros, Soledad
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Mahwah, N.J Psychology Press 2006; Taylor and Francis; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• 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

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...