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Author Millar, Susanna.

Title Understanding and representing space : theory and evidence from studies with blind and sighted children
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description xi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Oxford science publications
Oxford science publications.
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
Analysis Blindness
Children, Blind
Children
Mental representation in children
Space perception in children
Space perception
Notes Bibliography: p. 265-299
Includes author and subject indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-299) and indexes
Subject Blind children.
Blindness.
Mental representation in children.
Children.
Mental representation.
Space perception in children.
Space perception.
Vision.
Mental Processes.
Space Perception.
Blindness.
Child.
Infant.
Author Millar, Susanna.
LC no. 94010299
ISBN 0198521421 (hbk)