Understanding and Representing Space: Theory and Evidence from Studies with Blind and Sighted Children (Oxford Science Publications)
Language: English
Published by Clarendon Press, 1994
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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. Num Pages: 324 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: JMC; JMM; JMR; JNSC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 623. . 1994. 1998th Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Understanding and Representing Space: Theory and Evidence from Studies with Blind and Sighted Children (Oxford Science Publications)
- Author
- Millar, Susanna
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198521421
- ISBN 13
- 9780198521426
Findings from the author's work with congenitally totally blind and with sighted children, together with studies from a wide variety of other areas, are set in the context of intersensory and spatial development. Touch and movement are considered as converging sources of reference information with and without vision.
The findings have important implications for future work in many fields, particularly developmental pscychology; cognition, cognitive neuroscience and visual handicap, and make this new work essential reading for students and researchers in these fields.
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The book is a 'must' for researchers probing into the complexities of how the young human child, when deprived of the sense of sight, comprehends and represents space. It will be obligatory reading, too, for those whose investigations have been based on the notion of the primacy of vision. It is a masterly review of the relevant literature, capped by the expounding of a genuinely new and testable model. (Michael Tobin, Research Centre for Education of the Visually Handicapped, Perception, 1998, volume 27)
'...The book has many attractive ingredients. It is concerned with important theoretical issues. It draws upon an extensive and varied literature...It really is quite rare to encounter work which maintains a clear focus on such significant representational issues while, at the same time, attempting to apply the ideas directly, in this case to the techniques which might be used to compensate for the absence of sight...the wealth of data which the book provides is sufficient to make it valuable to its target audeince of psychologists, researchers in spatial representation, specialists working with the blind and the merely curious.' (Rob Ellis, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Plymouth)
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