Seeing, reaching, touching : the relations between vision and touch in infancy

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Seeing, reaching, touching : the relations between vision and touch in infancy

Arlette Streri

(The Developing body and mind)

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

Other Title

Voir, atteindre, toucher

Uniform Title

Voir, atteindre, toucher

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Bibliography: p. 188-213

Includes index

Translation of: Voir, atteindre, toucher

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book investigates the relationship between tactile and visual systems in infancy and introduces a theory of the visual touching mechanisms in babies - a precocious ability central to cognitive development. Bringing together research on the sensorimotor and perceptual capacity of infants, Streri demonstrates that current research is insufficient to provide an understanding of the conditions necessary for the establishment of a unity of seeing and touching systems. Against the background of a spectrum of developmental theories, the author argues that an early developing co-ordination of vision and touch, and of perception and action, underlies the infant's exchanges with his or her surroundings.

Table of Contents

  • Theoretical perspectives and hypotheses
  • manual approach of a visual target as evidence of perceptual co-ordination
  • the motor ability and sensoriality of the tactile system
  • the perceptual relations between vision and touch
  • perception and knowledge.

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  • NCID
    BA21738845
  • ISBN
    • 0745013228
    • 0745013236
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    New York ; London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 224 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
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