Psychology of touch and blindness / Morton A. Heller and Edouard Gentaz.
"This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, it encompasses a wide-ranging discussion of the theoretical issues in the field of touch perception and blindness....
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Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: historical and philosophical background
- Cognitive neuroscience of touch
- The haptic perception of objects and their properties
- Illusions
- Intermodal relations
- Developent of haptic perception over the life span
- Blindness: general introduction: pattern perception, imagery, spatial orientation, and mobility
- Picture perception and blind people
- Braille and new technology
- Haptics in learning reading, hadwriting, and mathematics
- Tactile interfaces and applications
- General conclusions: implications of current research for theory and applications.