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Peer reviewedLocher, Paul J. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Sighted subjects assembled puzzles under separate conditions of visual-haptic perception and used vision and touch simultaneously to illustrate visual-type involvement and links in haptic encoding processes. A cognitive component in perceptions was found. When visual input was inadequate or independent of haptic perception, tactual information was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Object Manipulation, Sensory Integration
Peer reviewedBlewitt, Pamela; Durkin, Marcie – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Depending on age and the demands of the task, people may use different processing strategies in object categorization. Three-year-olds used a wholistic approach with strong effects of object typicality on three categorization tasks. Older children and adults showed differential effects of typicality, suggesting various strategies including…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Classification
