Understanding and representing space : theory and evidence from studies with blind and sighted children /

How we perceive and understand the space around us is one of the central topics of cognitive psychology. This book challenges the notion that vision is the main sensory modality for this purpose, and compares vision with touch and movement as sources of spatial information in the absense of sight.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Millar, Susanna
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994.
Series:	Oxford science publications.
Subjects:	Space perception in children. Mental representation in children. Blind children. Human information processing. Space perception. Blindness. Children. Infants. Mental Processes Space Perception Blindness Child Infant Perception spatiale chez l'enfant. Représentation mentale chez l'enfant. Enfants aveugles. Traitement de l'information chez l'être humain. Perception spatiale. Cécité. Enfants. Nourrissons. Enfance. space perception. blindness. children (people by age group) infants. childhood. Space perception Infants Human information processing Children Blind children Mental representation in children Space perception in children Raumwahrnehmung Kind Blindheit Children, Blind Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: questions and terms
2. Modality and cognition in developmental theories and the evidence
3. The modalities as convergent sources of spatial information
4. Neuropsychological evidence on convergence
5. Shape coding by vision and touch
6. Spatial coding: studies in small-scale space
7. Information and understanding large-scale space
8. Non-verbal representation: images, drawing, maps, and memory
9. Some practical implications
10. A theory of spatial understanding and development.