Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of Authors viii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Some anatomical and neurophysiological bases of tactile manual perception
6. Chapter 2. General characteristics of the anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions 17
7. Chapter 3. Anatomical and functional organization of cutaneous and haptic perceptions 33
8. Part 2. Haptic perceptual exploration
9. Chapter 4. Manual exploration and haptic perception in infants 51
10. Chapter 5. Manual exploratory procedures in children and adults 67
11. Chapter 6. Handedness and manual exploration 83
12. Part 3. Haptic perceptions and spatial imaged representations
13. Chapter 7. The haptic identification of everyday life objects 105
14. Chapter 8. Haptic processing of spatial and material object properties 123
15. Chapter 9. Haptic perceptual illusions 161
16. Chapter 10. Congenitally blindness and spatial mental imagery 173
17. Part 4. Intermodal coordinations
18. Chapter 11. Intermodal relations in infancy 191
19. Chapter 12. Intermodal coordinations in children and adults 207
20. Chapter 13. Tactile exploration in nonhuman primates 221
21. Part 5. Some practical applications for visually impaired people
22. Chapter 14. Braille 237
23. Chapter 15. The tactile reading of maps and drawings, and the access of blind people to works of art 255
24. Chapter 16. Sensory substitution 275
25. Chapter 17. New technologies empowering visually impaired people for accessing documents 293
26. Name index 305
27. Subject index 317