Keep an eye on your hands: On the role of visual mechanisms in processing of haptic space

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-68

  Postma, Albert ^a   Zuidhoek, Sander ^a   Noordzij, Matthijs L ^b   Kappers, Astrid M L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TACTILE MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TOUCH;

EID: 39849095564     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-007-0201-z     Document Type: Review

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