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Models of Sensory Deprivation: The Nature/nurture Dichotomy and Spatial Representation in the Blind.

Millar, Susanna – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Examines the fallacies about the nature of abilities and learning and about the interaction between sense modalities which follow from the dichotomy in relation to explanations of spatial development in the blind. Suggests that interactions between cognitive and perceptual factors need to be considered to explain more adequately effects of sensory…
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development

Battista, Michael T. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1994
Discusses the spatial aspects of Greeno's model of conceptual domains and applies the theory to geometry learning. Examines the relationship between mathematical and spatial thinking in light of Greeno's environmental/spatial view of learning. (Contains 16 references.) (MDH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Mapping, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education