Understanding and Representing Space
Theory and Evidence from Studies with Blind and Sighted Children
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 27 October 1994
- ISBN 9780198521426
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 241x160x23 mm
- Weight 623 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line drawings 0
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Short description:
How we perceive and understand the space around us is one of the central topics of cognitive psychology. This book challenges the traditional 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 absence of sight. Dr Millar's work with blind and sighted children has led her to formulate a coherent framework for findings from neuropsychology, neurology, and neuroscience.
MoreLong description:
This book breaks new ground in our understanding of how we perceive and represent the space around us - one of the central topics in cognitive psychology. It presents a new view of development and spatial cognition by reversing the usual focus on vision and examining the evidence on representation in the total absence of vision without specific brain damage.
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.
we have here a very considerable achievement ... particularly welcome ... Susanna Millar, for her work in the field, has deserved a celebratory festschrift; the only problem is that this volume will be a very difficult act to follow!
Table of Contents:
Introduction: questions and terms
Modality and cognition in developmental theories and evidence
The modalities as convergent sources of spatial information
Neuropsychological evidence on convergence
Shape coding by vision and touch
Spatial coding: studies in small-scale space
Information and understanding large-scale space
Non-verbal representation: images, drawings, maps, and memory
Some practical implications
A theory of spatial understanding and development
