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Understanding and representing space : theory and evidence from studies with blind and sighted children

Title
Understanding and representing space : theory and evidence from studies with blind and sighted children / Susanna Millar.
Author
Millar, Susanna.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Description
xi, 313 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Space perception in children
  • Mental representation in children
  • Blind children
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-299) and indexes.
Contents
1. Introduction: questions and terms -- 2. Modality and cognition in developmental theories and the evidence -- 3. The modalities as convergent sources of spatial information -- 4. Neuropsychological evidence on convergence -- 5. Shape coding by vision and touch -- 6. Spatial coding: studies in small-scale space -- 7. Information and understanding large-scale space -- 8. Non-verbal representation: images, drawing, maps, and memory -- 9. Some practical implications -- 10. A theory of spatial understanding and development.
ISBN
0198521421 :
LCCN
94010299
OCLC
ocm30072533
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries