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Research on touch and blindness has undergone rapid transformation in recent years, with dramatic developments in technology designed to provide assistance to t

This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscie

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 whic

Touch and Blindness approaches the study of this topic from the perspectives of psychological methodology and the most sophisticated, state-of-the-art technique

Reading, using vision or touch, translates abstact marks on a page into an understanding of ideas. The perceptual, linguistic and cognitive processes involved i