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Picard, Delphine; Albaret, Jean-Michel; Mazella, Anaïs – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2014
Research into haptic picture perception has mostly concerned adult participants, and little is known about haptic picture perception in visually impaired and sighted children. In the present study, we compared 13 visually impaired children (early blind and low vision) aged 9-10 years and 13 agematched blindfolded sighted children on their ability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Impairments, Children, Tactual Perception
Heller, Morton A.; McCarthy, Melissa; Clark, Ashley – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2005
This article reviews recent research on perception of tangible pictures in sighted and blind people. Haptic picture naming accuracy is dependent upon familiarity and access to semantic memory, just as in visual recognition. Performance is high when haptic picture recognition tasks do not depend upon semantic memory. Viewpoint matters for the ease…
Descriptors: Blindness, Semantics, Familiarity, Memory