Introduction: Approaches to touch and blindness

Touch and Blindness: Psychology and Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-21

  Heller, Morton A ^a   Ballesteros, Soledad ^b  

^a EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

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EID: 84904779379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410615671     Document Type: Editorial

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