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Touch and Blindness Psychology and Neuroscience
240 Pages
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Psychology Press
240 Pages
by
Psychology Press
240 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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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 the perspectives of psychological methodology and the most sophisticated, state-of-the-art... Read more
Contents: Preface. M.A. Heller, S. Ballesteros, Introduction: Approaches to Touch and Blindness. Part I: Psychology. S. Millar, Processing Spatial Information From Touch and Movement: Implications From and for Neuroscience. M.A. Heller, Picture Perception and Spatial Cognition in Visually Impaired People. J.M. Kennedy, I. Juricevic, Form, Projection, and Pictures for the Blind. S. Ballesteros, J.M. Reales, Haptic Priming and Recognition in Young Adults, Normal Aging, and Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence for Dissociable Memory Systems. J.A.M. Sevilla, Tactile Virtual Reality: A New Method Applied to Haptic Exploration. Part II: Neuroscience. T.W. James, K.H. James, G.K. Humphrey, M.A. Goodale, Do Visual and Tactile Object Representations Share the Same Neural Substrate? K. Sathian, S.C. Prather, Cerebral Cortical Processing of Tactile Form: Evidence From Functional Neuroimaging. A. Pascual-Leone, H.Theoret, L. Merabet, T. Kauffmann, G. Schlaug, The Role of Visual Cortex in Tactile Processing: A Metamodal Brain. S. Ballesteros, M.A. Heller, Conclusions: Touch and Blindness, Psychology and Neuroscience.
Biography
Morton A. Heller, Soledad Ballesteros
"This book is of interest both to students new to the field as well as to more experienced researchers." Astrid Kappers, Perception
