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Download full textVanlierde, Annick; Wanet-Defalque, Marie-Chantal – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 2005
The mental imagery of participants who became blind early in life (EB participants), participants who became blind later in life (LB participants), and sighted participants was compared in two experiments. In the first experiment, the participants were asked to image common objects and to estimate how far away these objects appeared in their…
Descriptors: Imagery, Blindness, Visual Perception, Adults
Newman, Slater E.; And Others – 1980
The study involving 96 undergraduates with no previous experience with braille investigated variables (such as size of the braille symbols) affecting the learning of braille. Data were analyzed in terms of the number of correct responses, item difficulty, and error patterns. Visual Ss did better than haptic Ss on the regular bralle items but not…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Exceptional Child Research, Performance Factors
