Aspects of object recognition: When touch replaces vision as the dominant sense modality

Visual Impairment Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 101-112

  Graven, Torø ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Blind; information processing; shape recognition; tactile; vision touch link

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148871682     PISSN: 1388235X     EISSN: 17445167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/vimr.5.2.101.26263     Document Type: Article

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