Haptic concepts in the blind

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 690-698

  Homa, Donald ^a   Kahol, Kanav ^a   Tripathi, Priyamvada ^a   Bratt, Laura ^a   Panchanathan, Sethuraman ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TOUCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINDNESS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; STEREOGNOSIS; TOUCH; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650138994     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.690     Document Type: Article

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