In:Touching for Knowing: Cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception
Edited by Yvette Hatwell, Arlette Streri and Edouard Gentaz
[Advances in Consciousness Research 53] 2003
► pp. v–vii
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Published online: 9 September 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.53.toc
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Table of contents
List of Authorsviii
Chapter 1. Introduction: Touch and cognition
Part 1. Some anatomical and neurophysiological bases of tactile manual perception
Chapter 2. General characteristics of the anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions
Chapter 3. Anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions: The contribution of neuropsychology and cerebral functional imagery
Part 2. Haptic perceptual exploration
Chapter 4. Manual exploration and haptic perception in infants
Chapter 5. Manual exploratory procedures in children and adults
Chapter 6. Handedness and manual exploration
Part 3. Haptic perceptions and spatial imaged representations
Chapter 7. The haptic identification of everyday life objects
Chapter 8. Haptic processing of spatial and material object properties
Chapter 9. Haptic perceptual illusions
Chapter 10. Congenitally blindness and spatial mental imagery
Part 4. Intermodal coordinations
Chapter 11. Intermodal relations in infancy
Chapter 12. Intermodal coordinations in children and adults
Chapter 13. Tactile exploration in nonhuman primates
Part 5. Some practical applications for visually impaired people
Chapter 14. Braille: Issues on structure, teaching and assessment
Chapter 15. The tactile reading of maps and drawings, and the access of blind people to works of art
Chapter 16. Sensory substitution: Limits and perspectives
Chapter 17. New technologies empowering visually impaired people for accessing documents
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