Touch, Representation, and Blindness

Touch, Representation, and Blindness. Morton A. Heller

 

 

 

 

 

 

Available for download free Touch, Representation, and Blindness. Seeing with the Hands Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes Mark Paterson. Published by Edinburgh University Press. Unfolds the history of 'blindness' from 17th century that shades into the beginnings of psychology; Questions the assumed centrality of vision and the eye in Enlightenment philosophy and science Touch, Representation, and Blindness (Debates in Psychology). Find all books from Morton Heller. At you can find used, antique and new books, compare results and immediately purchase your selection at the best price. 0198503881. Hardcover book. 240 … If you are unaware, sensitivity readers are hired to read a manuscript specifically for a potentially sensitive topic - in this case, the representation of blindness. This is not a request for editing. Instead, I ask that you read the book as a reader would, and give me … Get this from a library! Touch, representation, and blindness. [Morton A Heller;] - "Psychological studies of touch and blindness have been fraught with controversy. Within this field there remains an important theoretical divide. Many researchers have taken a cognitive approach to Psychological studies of touch and blindness have been fraught with controversy. This volume brings together leading investigators, who each write a contribution presenting the evidence for their side of the debate. It examines the major theories and controversies in the field and spans topics from basic philosophical issues to the immediate application of psychological principles to human needs. Let the child match each touch object to the tactual representation in the book - place the touch objects in a box decorated with Christmas wrap and ribbon or in a large stocking. Let the child help you tape the objects in the book next to their representations. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. 91, 14-23. Miller, D. (1985). Seeing with the Hands Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes. Mark Paterson. Has the standard representation of blind figures in literature been modified by recent autobiographical He has published book chapters and journal articles on the senses, blindness, and sensory technologies. He is currently working on a monograph If a blind person has extra training in the use of touch for tasks such as Braille or spatial orientation, then we might expect increased skill as a consequence. This is the sensory compensation hypothesis, and there is evidence that practice can aid touch (Sathian, Neurology 54(12): 2203–2204. 2000). In this book, Dago Schelin questions categories such as active and passive vision, tactile visuality, as well as blind vision, and discusses them alongside a variety of movies that deal with vision and blindness. Is there a connection between the filmmaker's gaze and an older pre-Keplerian ontology of vision? What is the role of sound in vision? Psychological studies of touch and blindness have been fraught with controversy. Within this field there remains an important theoretical divide. Many researchers have taken a cognitive approach to the study of touch and blindness, relating these to higher order processes, such as memory and concept formation. Others adopt a theoretical perspective, arguing that it is not necessary to consider This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the eighteenth century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing of the blind, blind musicians, blindness as Changing objects to textures and teaching representation bank’ of touch experiences. Placing these tactile experiences/ objects into book format allows the development of book Institutional portraits of blindness: conforming to visual modes. The following images exemplify the practice of using portraiture to promote the work of institutions committed to blind people's education and training, and signal the complex and contradictory agendas that shaped representations of blind people reading by touch. There are two main goals presented in this chapter: to cite the role of haptics to the perceiving abilities of both the blind and the sighted of their surroundings and to state that these skills are perceptual rather than inferential. The case of a 19-year-old boy with a severe case of sensory neuropathy leads to an understanding that the touch system is unique in terms of being both Touch, Literally “Touch” most frequently refers to the sense of touch, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “That sense by which a material object is perceived by means of the contact with it of some part of the body.” 1 It is associated with the hand, and the art of sculpture. Compared to the other senses, touch is both immediate and unmediated. Dynamic or effortful touch is a subsystem of the haptic perceptual system (Gibson 1966). It is the most common form of touch, hardly noticed as such, and rarely studied (until recently). The ‘man born blind restored to light’ was one of the foundational myths of the Enlightenment, according to Foucault. With ophthalmic surgery in its infancy, the fascination by the sighted with blindness and what the blind might ‘see’ after sight restoration remained largely speculative. 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 neuroscientific approaches, it encompasses a wide-ranging discussion of the theoretical issues in the field of touch perception and blindness.

 

 

 

 

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