Tactual picture identification by blind and sighted people: Effects of providing categorical information

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 310-323

  Heller, Morton A ^a   Calcaterra, Jeffrey A ^a   Burson, Lynnetta L ^a   Tyler, Lisa A ^a  

^a WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; STEREOGNOSIS;

EID: 0030074292     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03211884     Document Type: Article

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