Research Catalog

Title

Understanding and representing space : theory and evidence from studies with blind and sighted children / Susanna Millar.

Author

Millar, Susanna.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

xi, 313 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford science publications

Uniform Title

Oxford science publications

Subject

• Space perception in children
• Mental representation in children
• Blind children
• Human information processing
• Space perception
• Blindness
• Children
• Infants
• Mental Processes
• Space Perception
• Blindness
• Child
• Infant
• space perception
• blindness
• children (people by age group)
• infants
• Blind children
• Mental representation in children
• Space perception in children
• Raumwahrnehmung
• Kind
• Blindheit
• Représentation mentale chez l'enfant
• Perception spatiale chez l'enfant
• Enfants aveugles
• Cécité

Note

• "Oxford science publications".

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
• 9780198521426

LCCN

94010299

OCLC

• ocm30072533
• 30072533
• SCSB-2039310

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library