Understanding and Representing SpaceTheory and Evidence from Studies with Blind and Sighted Children
Abstract
This book breaks new ground in the understanding of how one perceives and represent the space around people — one of the central topics in cognitive psychology. It presents a new view of development and spatial cognition by reversing the usual focus on vision and examining the evidence on representation in the total absence of vision without specific brain damage. Findings from the work with congenitally totally blind and with sighted children, together with studies from a wide variety of other areas, are set in the context of intersensory and spatial development. Touch and movement are considered as converging sources of reference information with and without vision. The findings have important implications for future work in many fields, particularly developmental psychology, cognition, cognitive neuroscience, and visual handicap.
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This division of attention contributes to cognitive overload during Web interaction.
“This contributes to cognitive overload during Web interaction (Millar, 1994;Thinus-Blanc and Gaunet, 1997).”
From Understanding Blind Users' Web Accessibility and Usability Problems (2010) · cites this paper as Millar, 1994
BVI individuals, particularly those with early-onset and total blindness, exhibit a range of spatial deficits on spatial learning and wayfinding behaviors compared to sighted peers.
“people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI), particularly those with early-onset and total blindness, exhibit a range of spatial deficits on spatial learning and wayfinding behaviors as compared to their sighted peers”
From Cognitive Mapping Without Vision: Comparing Wayfinding Performance After Learning From Digital Touchscreen-Based Multimodal Maps vs. Embossed Tactile Overlays (2020) · cites this paper as Millar, 1994
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“…those with early-onset and total blindness, exhibit a range of spatial deficits on spatial learning and wayfinding behaviors as compared to their sighted peers (for reviews, see Golledge, 1993; Millar, 1994; Thinus-Blanc and Gaunet, 1997; Ungar, 2000; Long and Giudice, 2010; Schinazi et al., 2016).”
BackgroundUnderstanding Blind Users' Web Accessibility and Usability Problems
The University of North Carolina - Greensboro, Babu, R., Singh, R., The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, U., Ganesh, J., & Limited, I. T. (2010) · AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.17705/1thci.00015 · Cited by 59 · see citing works
Updated tactile feedback with a pin array matrix helps blind people to reduce self-location errors
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“For instance, blind individuals might prefer route-like representations of spatial information while those who are sighted tend to code spatial information as survey-like representations [9,10].”
Background
- Authors
- Millar, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Millar, Susanna
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1994-10-27
- OpenAlex
- W1783251216
- Cited by
- 380
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 2.20
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- spatial cognition, spatial representation, congenital blindness, blind children, spatial development, touch, movement, reference information, visual deprivation, cognitive development
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