The objective of this review is to examine and evaluate recent findings on cognitive
functioning (in particular imagery processes) in individuals with congenital visual …

Blindness often results in the adaptive neural reorganization of the remaining modalities,
producing sharper auditory and haptic behavioral performance. Yet, non-visual modalities …

In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor
aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives …

This chapter describes a sensory modality that underlies the most common everyday
activities: maintaining one's posture, scratching an itch, or picking up a spoon. As a topic of …

Spatial skills are an important component of success in science, technology, engineering,
and math (STEM) fields. A majority of what we know about spatial skills today is a result of …

Tactile maps are commonly used to give visually impaired users access to geographical
representations. Although those relief maps are efficient tools for acquisition of spatial …

Haptic identification of real objects is superior to that of raised two-dimensional (2-D)
depictions. Three explanations of real-object superiority were investigated: contribution of …

The literature often suggests that proprioceptive and especially vestibular cues are required
for navigation and spatial orientation tasks involving rotations of the observer. To test this …

A conceptual model of the human haptic system in relation to object identification is
presented. The model encompasses major architectural elements including representations …