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Author | : Yvette Hatwell |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9789027251862 |
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The dominance of vision is so strong in sighted people that touch is sometimes considered as a minor perceptual modality. However, touch is a powerful tool which contributes significantly to our knowledge of space and objects. Its intensive use by blind persons allows them to reach the same levels of knowledge and cognition as their sighted peers.In this book, specialized researchers present the recent state of knowledge about the cognitive functioning of touch. After an analysis of the neurophysiology and neuropsychology of touch, exploratory manual behaviors, intramodal haptic (tactual-kinesthetic) abilities and cross-modal visual-tactual coordination are examined in infants, children and adults, and in non-human primates. These studies concern both sighted and blind persons in order to know whether early visual deprivation modifies the modes of processing space and objects. The last section is devoted to the technical devices favoring the school and social integration of the young blind: Braille reading, use of raised maps and drawings, sensory substitution displays, and new technologies of communication adapted for the blind. (Series B)
Author | : Sushma Subramanian |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2021-02-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0231553056 |
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We are out of touch. Many people fear that we are trapped inside our screens, becoming less in tune with our bodies and losing our connection to the physical world. But the sense of touch has been undervalued since long before the days of digital isolation. Because of deeply rooted beliefs that favor the cerebral over the corporeal, touch is maligned as dirty or sentimental, in contrast with supposedly more elevated modes of perceiving the world. How to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sense. Sushma Subramanian introduces readers to the scientists whose groundbreaking research is underscoring the role of touch in our lives. Through vivid individual stories—a man who lost his sense of touch in his late teens, a woman who experiences touch-emotion synesthesia, her own efforts to become less touch averse—Subramanian explains the science of the somatosensory system and our philosophical beliefs about it. She visits labs that are shaping the textures of objects we use every day, from cereal to synthetic fabrics. The book highlights the growing field of haptics, which is trying to incorporate tactile interactions into devices such as phones that touch us back and prosthetic limbs that can feel. How to Feel offers a new appreciation for a vital but misunderstood sense and how we can use it to live more fully.
Author | : Robyn Grant |
Publisher | : Frontiers E-books |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Human-machine systems |
ISBN | : 2889192482 |
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Active touch can be described as the control of the position and movement of tactile sensing systems to facilitate information gain. In other words, it is finding out about the world by reaching out and exploring—sensing by ‘touching’ as opposed to ‘being touched’. In this Research Topic (with cross-posting in both Behavioural Neuroscience and Neurorobotics) we welcomed articles from junior researchers on any aspect of active touch. We were especially interested in articles on the behavioral, physiological and neuronal underpinnings of active touch in a range of species (including humans) for submission to Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience. We also welcomed articles describing robotic systems with biomimetic or bio-inspired tactile sensing systems for publication in Frontiers in Neurorobotics.
Author | : Dolores Rodriguez |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Acupressure |
ISBN | : 9788120724235 |
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Author | : Henry Jamyn Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : First philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Fred Penzel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
ISBN | : 0195140923 |
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Author | : Sue Nicholson |
Publisher | : QED Publishing |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2017-11-23 |
Genre | : Children's questions and answers |
ISBN | : 9781784938369 |
Download Can You Touch a Rainbow? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Why does the sun set? How are snowflakes made? Why is the sea salty? Why do volcanoes explode? Find out the answers to the questions that have fascinated children (and adults!) for generations with this unusual and amusing question-and-answer book! A fun first introduction to the world around us and the history and functions of our planet. With hilarious, imaginative questions answered by know-it-all animal characters and funny, cartoon-style illustrations accompanying scientific facts, this book introduces children to facts about the planet in a fun, enjoyable way.
Author | : David J. Linden |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0143128442 |
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The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Compass of Pleasure" examines how our sense of touch is interconnected with our emotions Dual-function receptors in our skin make mint feel cool and chili peppers hot.
Author | : Richard Hakluyt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mark Paterson |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1409402142 |
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Providing a rich combination of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and empirical investigation, each of the chapters takes a distinct aspect of touch within a particular spatial context, exploring this through a mixture of sustained empirical work, critical theories of embodiment, philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to gendered touch and touching, or the relationship between visual and non-visual culture, to articulate something of the variety and variability of touching experiences. The volume has a strong thematic identity and therefore represents the formative collection concerning the multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship at this time..