Touching for Knowing
Title | Touching for Knowing PDF eBook |
Author | Yvette Hatwell |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | 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)
How to Feel
Title | How to Feel PDF eBook |
Author | Sushma Subramanian |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2021-02-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0231553056 |
We are out of touch. Many people fear that we are trapped inside our screens, becoming less in tune with our bodies and losing our connection to the physical world. But the sense of touch has been undervalued since long before the days of digital isolation. Because of deeply rooted beliefs that favor the cerebral over the corporeal, touch is maligned as dirty or sentimental, in contrast with supposedly more elevated modes of perceiving the world. How to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sense. Sushma Subramanian introduces readers to the scientists whose groundbreaking research is underscoring the role of touch in our lives. Through vivid individual stories—a man who lost his sense of touch in his late teens, a woman who experiences touch-emotion synesthesia, her own efforts to become less touch averse—Subramanian explains the science of the somatosensory system and our philosophical beliefs about it. She visits labs that are shaping the textures of objects we use every day, from cereal to synthetic fabrics. The book highlights the growing field of haptics, which is trying to incorporate tactile interactions into devices such as phones that touch us back and prosthetic limbs that can feel. How to Feel offers a new appreciation for a vital but misunderstood sense and how we can use it to live more fully.
Touching Photographs
Title | Touching Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Olin |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2012-05-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226626466 |
Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography’s ability to “touch” us through a series of essays that shed new light on photography’s role in the world. Olin investigates the publication of photographs in mass media and literature, the hanging of exhibitions, the posting of photocopied photographs of lost loved ones in public spaces, and the intense photographic activity of tourists at their destinations. She moves from intimate relationships between viewers and photographs to interactions around larger communities, analyzing how photography affects the way people handle cataclysmic events like 9/11. Along the way, she shows us James VanDerZee’s Harlem funeral portraits, dusts off Roland Barthes’s family album, takes us into Walker Evans and James Agee’s photo-text Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and logs onto online photo albums. With over one hundred illustrations, Touching Photographs is an insightful contribution to the theory of photography, visual studies, and art history.
Active Touch Sensing
Title | Active Touch Sensing PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn Grant |
Publisher | Frontiers E-books |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2014-07-14 |
Genre | Human-machine systems |
ISBN | 2889192482 |
Active touch can be described as the control of the position and movement of tactile sensing systems to facilitate information gain. In other words, it is finding out about the world by reaching out and exploring—sensing by ‘touching’ as opposed to ‘being touched’. In this Research Topic (with cross-posting in both Behavioural Neuroscience and Neurorobotics) we welcomed articles from junior researchers on any aspect of active touch. We were especially interested in articles on the behavioral, physiological and neuronal underpinnings of active touch in a range of species (including humans) for submission to Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience. We also welcomed articles describing robotic systems with biomimetic or bio-inspired tactile sensing systems for publication in Frontiers in Neurorobotics.
Obsessive-compulsive Disorders
Title | Obsessive-compulsive Disorders PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Penzel |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
ISBN | 0195140923 |
Offers advice on how to choose the most effective therapies and medications, and how to avoid relapses.
All You Wanted to Know about the Healing Touch Acupressure
Title | All You Wanted to Know about the Healing Touch Acupressure PDF eBook |
Author | Dolores Rodriguez |
Publisher | Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Acupressure |
ISBN | 9788120724235 |
The Elements of Mind
Title | The Elements of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Jamyn Brooks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | First philosophy |
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