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- English
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Space and Sense
About this book
How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute?
This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on integrating diverse sensory inputs as reference cues for the location, distance or direction response that spatial tasks demand. Space and Sense shows how perception by touch, as by vision, can be helped by external reference cues, and that 'visual' illusions that are also found in touch depend on common factors and do not occur by chance.
Susanna Millar presents new evidence on the role of spatial cues in touch and movement both with and without vision, and discusses the interaction of both touch and movement with vision in spatial tasks. The book shows how perception by touch, as by vision, can be helped by external reference cues, and that 'visual' illusions that are also found in touch depend on common factors and do not occur by chance. It challenges traditional views of explicit external reference cues, showing that they can improve spatial recall with inputs from touch and movement, contrary to the held belief.
Space and Sense provides empirical evidence for an important distinction between spatial vision and vision that excludes spatial cues in relation to touch. This important new volume extends previous descriptions of bimodal effects in vision and space.
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Table of contents
- ESSAYS IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE Concepts of space and the senses: A brief historical perspective
- CHAPTER TWO Spatial coding as integrative processing of inputs from vision, touch and movement
- CHAPTER THREE Reference cues in large-scale space
- CHAPTER FOUR Hand movements and spatial reference in shapes and small-scale space
- CHAPTER FIVE External and body-centred reference and haptic memory
- CHAPTER SIX Visual illusions that occur in touch
- CHAPTER SEVEN Müller-Lyer shapes
- CHAPTER EIGHT What does vision contribute to touch?
- CHAPTER NINE How far have we got? Where are we going?
- References
- Author index
- Subject index