Haptic perception of the horizontal by blind and low-vision individuals

Perception

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 601-610

  Heller, Morton A ^a   Brackett, Deneen D ^a   Scroggs, Eric ^a   Allen, Angela C ^a   Green, Shavonda ^b  

^a EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISION, LOW;

EID: 0035227603     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p3026     Document Type: Article

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