Tactual Perception
A Sourcebook
Published on 14. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-521-12629-8 (ISBN)
Description
Advances in our understanding of the ways in which people obtain information about the world through their hand and skin sense have many practical implications for work with sensorily impaired children and adults. This volume, first published in 1982, draws together the threads of numerous studies to present an overview of knowledge about tactual-haptic perception. It will be a valuable reference text for a wide variety of psychologists and other students of perception as well as for those involved in the education of the blind and deaf. Tactual graphics, the perception of speech via the skin and the written word via Braille, the production and perception of drawings by the blind, and the social significance of touch are among the topics addressed by the chapter authors.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
723 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-12629-8 (9780521126298)
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Content
Editorial preface William Schiff and Emerson Foulke; 1. Tactual perception in historical perspective: David Katz's world of touch Lester E. Krueger; 2. The psychophysics of touch Carl E. Sherrick and James C. Craig; 3. The development of haptic perception David H. Warren; 4. The perception of texture by touch Susan J. Lederman; 5. Reading braille Emerson Foulke; 6. Dynamic tactile displays James C. Craig and Carl E. Sherrick; 7. Current developments in tactile communication of speech Jacob H. Kirman; 8. Social touching Stephen Thayer; 9. Haptic pictures John M. Kennedy; 10. Mobility maps Grahame A. James; 11. Haptic perception of tangible graphic displays Edward P. Berla; 12. Tangible graphic displays in the education of blind persons Billie L. Bentzen; 13. Production of tangible graphic displays John M. Gill; 14. Tangible graphics: producers' views Jasha M. Levi and Nancy S. Amick; 15. A user's view of tangible graphics: The Louisville Workshop William Schiff; Name index; Subject index.