Structural properties of spatial representations in blind people: Scanning images constructed from haptic exploration or from locomotion in a 3-D audio virtual environment

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 591-604

  Afonso, Amandine ^a   Blum, Alan ^a   Katz, Brian F G ^a   Tarroux, Philipp E ^a   Borst, Grégoire ^b   Denis, Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STEREOGNOSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956458824     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.5.591     Document Type: Article

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