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An overview of knowledge about tactual-haptic perception.
Author : William Schiff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 1982-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521240956
An overview of knowledge about tactual-haptic perception.
Author : James Charles Bliss
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Perception
ISBN :
Results of five studies on tactual perception, involving airjet stimulators and a computer-controlled facility, are given. In the first study, alphabetic shapes were presented on an 8x6 airjet array that was translated in a small circle. The increased performance with movement suggests a hypothetical model that qualitatively accounts for the display motion effects. The second study involved pairs of alphabetic shapes presented in rapid succession at the same anatomical location. The interaction effects were: increased letter reversals for short interstimulus intervals; more first-response errors for short-stimulus onset intervals and more second-response errors for long-stimulus intervals; a crossover in first- and second-response error rates of 100 to 200 msec after onset of the first stimulus. In the third study, point airjet stimuli were applied simultaneously to the 24 interjoint regions of the fingers. The results suggest a tactile short-term memory with greater capacity than immediate-memory span but with 0.8-sec decay rate. In the fourth study, visual and tactile stimuli giving equal mean simple reaction times were used. With increased response alternatives, mean visual times increased less than mean tactile times; but with simultaneous presentation of both stimulus types, mean reaction time was much shorter than with either type alone.
Author : Kenneth Boff
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 1986-10-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780471829577
Author : Yvette Hatwell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027251862
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 : Robert R. Hoffman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1468 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1139993534
The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Perception Research covers core areas of research in perception with an emphasis on its application to real-world environments. Topics include multisensory processing of information, time perception, sustained attention, and signal detection, as well as pedagogical issues surrounding the training of applied perception researchers. In addition to familiar topics, such as perceptual learning, the Handbook focuses on emerging areas of importance, such as human-robot coordination, haptic interfaces, and issues facing societies in the twenty-first century (such as terrorism and threat detection, medical errors, and the broader implications of automation). Organized into sections representing major areas of theoretical and practical importance for the application of perception psychology to human performance and the design and operation of human-technology interdependence, it also addresses the challenges to basic research, including the problem of quantifying information, defining cognitive resources, and theoretical advances in the nature of attention and perceptual processes.
Author : Hendrik N. J. Schifferstein
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080556787
Product Experience brings together research that investigates how people experience products: durable, non-durable, or virtual. In contrast to other books, the present book takes a very broad, possibly all-inclusive perspective, on how people experience products. It thereby bridges gaps between several areas within psychology (e.g. perception, cognition, emotion) and links these areas to more applied areas of science, such as product design, human-computer interaction and marketing. The field of product experience research will include some of the research from four areas: Arts, Ergonomics, Technology, and Marketing. Traditionally, each of these four fields seems to have a natural emphasis on the human (ergonomics and marketing), the product (technology) or the experience (arts). However, to fully understand human product experience, we need to use different approaches and we need to build bridges between these various fields of expertise. Most comprehensive collection of psychological research behind product design and usability Consistenly addresses the 3 components of human-product experience: the human, the product, and the experience International contributions from experts in the field
Author : George J. Stack
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111725782
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Disabled veterans
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Prosthesis
ISBN :
Author : David Katz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1134752571
For the first time, David Katz's classic monograph The World of Touch has been translated into English. Regarded as one of the premiere experimental psychologists, Katz vigorously opposed the atomism and "tachistoscopic" mentality typical of the sensory psychology of his day. In The World of Touch, Katz sought to dispel the invidious distinction between the supposedly higher (e.g., vision, audition) and lower (e.g., touch) senses. To help touch regain its original prominence in the field, Katz demonstrated, through very simple, yet creative experiments, how fascinating the abilities of touch are, and how valuable the tactual stimulus can be in specifying objects, surfaces, substances, and events. In addition, Katz emphasized the importance of higher-order invariants in the perception of objects, and the holistic quality of perception in time as well as space.