Author: Arlette Streri
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780745013237
Category : Eye-hand coordination in infants
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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This book investigates the relationship between tactile and visual systems in infancy and introduces a theory of the visual touching mechanisms in babies - a precocious ability central to cognitive development. Bringing together research on the sensorimotor and perceptual capacity of infants, Streri demonstrates that current research is insufficient to provide an understanding of the conditions necessary for the establishment of a unity of seeing and touching systems. Against the background of a spectrum of developmental theories, the author argues that an early developing co-ordination of vision and touch, and of perception and action, underlies the infant's exchanges with his or her surroundings.
Author: Arlette Streri
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Streri demonstrates that, although current research confirms both perspectives, the results are insufficient to provide an understanding of the conditions necessary for the establishment of a unity of the two systems.
Author: Yvette Hatwell
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027296383
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The dominance of vision is so strong in sighted people that touch is sometimes considered as a minor perceptual modality. However, touch is a powerful tool which contributes significantly to our knowledge of space and objects. Its intensive use by blind persons allows them to reach the same levels of knowledge and cognition as their sighted peers.In this book, specialized researchers present the recent state of knowledge about the cognitive functioning of touch. After an analysis of the neurophysiology and neuropsychology of touch, exploratory manual behaviors, intramodal haptic (tactual-kinesthetic) abilities and cross-modal visual-tactual coordination are examined in infants, children and adults, and in non-human primates. These studies concern both sighted and blind persons in order to know whether early visual deprivation modifies the modes of processing space and objects. The last section is devoted to the technical devices favoring the school and social integration of the young blind: Braille reading, use of raised maps and drawings, “sensory substitution” displays, and new technologies of communication adapted for the blind. (Series B)
Author: Fusako Innami
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472129309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Fusako Innami offers the first comprehensive study of touch and skinship—relationality with the other through the skin—in modern Japanese writing. The concept of the unreachable—that is, the lack of characters’ complete ability to touch what they try to reach for—provides a critical intervention on the issue of intimacy. Touch has been philosophically addressed in France, but literature is an effective—or possibly the most productive—venue for exploring touch in Japan, as literary texts depict what the characters may be concerned with but may not necessarily say out loud. Such a moment of capturing the gap between the felt and the said—the interaction between the body and language—can be effectively analyzed by paying attention to layers of verbalization, or indeed translation, by characters’ utterances, authors’ depictions, and readers’ interpretations. Each of the writers discussed in this book—starting with Nobel prize winner Kawabata Yasunari, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Yoshiyuki Junnosuke, and Matsuura Rieko—presents a particular obsession with objects or relationality to the other constructed via the desire for touch. In Touching the Unreachable, phenomenological and psychoanalytical approaches are cross-culturally interrogated in engaging with literary touch to constantly challenge what may seem like the limit of transferability regarding concepts, words, and practices. The book thereby not only bridges cultural gaps beyond geographic and linguistic constraints, but also aims to decentralize a Eurocentric hegemony in its production and use of theories and brings Japanese cultural and literary analyses into further productive and stimulating intellectual dialogues. Through close readings of the authors’ treatment of touch, Innami develops a theoretical framework with which to examine intersensorial bodies interacting with objects and the environment through touch.
Author: Arne Valberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470012129
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Light Vision Color takes a well-balanced, interdisciplinary approach to our most important sensory system. The book successfully combines basics in vision sciences with recent developments from different areas such as neuroscience, biophysics, sensory psychology and philosophy. Originally published in 1998 this edition has been extensively revised and updated to include new chapters on clinical problems and eye diseases, low vision rehabilitation and the basic molecular biology and genetics of colour vision. Takes a broad interdisciplinary approach combining basics in vision sciences with the most recent developments in the area Includes an extensive list of technical terms and explanations to encourage student understanding Successfully brings together the most important areas of the subject in to one volume
Author: Don Gossett
Publisher: Whitaker House
ISBN: 1603747664
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Encourage One Another Are you ever lonely? Do you sometimes wish that someone would call or write or just give you a friendly hug? Don Gossett knows how you feel, and he shares a very special gift in this book—the life-giving act of reaching and touching a world full of loneliness and despair. You will learn how to reach out and touch lives through… A kind word A sincere letter A gentle embrace Genuine encouragement An uplifted prayer One person is enough to reach out and make the world a better place. And when you reach out to others, you will experience the joy of seeing God work in their lives as they respond to your unique touch.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Author: Joanne Tarasuik
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889454177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Touch screen tablets have greatly expanded the technology accessible to preschoolers, toddlers and even infants, given that they do not require the fine motor skills required for using traditional computers. Many parents and educators wish to make evidence-based decisions regarding young children’s technology use, yet technological advancements continue to occur faster than researchers can keep up with. Accordingly, despite touch screen tablets entering society more than 5 years ago, we are in the infancy of research concerning interactive media and children. The topic has gained traction in the past couple of years. For example theoretical papers have discussed how interactive media activities differ from physical toys and passive media (Christakis, 2014), and how educational apps development should utilise the four “pillars” of learning (Hirsh-Pasek et al., 2015). Yet there has been little experimental research published on young children and touch screen use.
Author: Tommy Thompson
Publisher: Easeofbeing Publications
ISBN: 9781733400541
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Enter into the teaching space of master Alexander Technique teacher Tommy Thompson. With compassion and integrity, Tommy's teaching explores the ways in which each of us can belong to the moment and stop defining ourselves by our habits. With its insightful, moving reflections, Touching Presence will inspire Alexander Technique teachers, trainees, and students -- indeed anyone -- to find their own path to being more fully present for themselves and the person in front of them.
Author: Donna L. Sadler
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004364374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Touching the Passion considers the ways that the Passion in late medieval retables touched worshipers. The author explores the “aesthetics of immersion” through different lenses, such as scale, medium, the five senses, the effect of the frame, and medieval mnemonics.
