Merleau-Ponty's theory of "embodiment", of the body as mediator of the world, has been very influential in philosophical and educational circles. This is to say, according to the theory of "embodiment", the body is central to one's "understanding" of the world, to one's engagement with Others, as well as to one's…

The cost of attending to a visual event can be the failure to consciously detect other events. This processing limitation is well illustrated by the attentional blink paradigm, in which searching for and attending to a target presented in a rapid serial visual presentation stream of distractors can impair one's ability to detect a second target…

Inattentional blindness is the failure to detect unexpected events when attention is otherwise engaged. Previous research indicates that inattentional blindness increases as perceptual demands intensify. The authors present 6 cuing experiments that manipulated both the perceptual demands of a primary letter-naming task and the expectations of the…

Even congenitally blind persons can picture things they have never seen, through an intuitive sense of perspective. (Author/BB)

ONE OF A SERIES OF PROVISIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN THE FIELD OF SENSORY RESEARCH RELATED TO SENSORY (ESPECIALLY VISUAL) IMPAIRMENT, THE DOCUMENT LISTS 284 SELECTED WORKS ON ELECTRICAL STIMUATION OF SKIN. PRIMARILY JOURNAL ARTICLES, BUT INCLUDING SOME BOOKS AND SEVERAL THESES, THE ITEMS DATE FROM 1891 THROUGH 1967 (IN PRESS). PUBLICATIONS CITED ARE…

SIX PAPERS OF T.D. CUTSFORTH WERE CHOSEN FOR POSTHUMOUS REPUBLICATION ON THE CRITERION OF RELEVANCE TO CURRENT RESEARCH. THE ARTICLES INCLUDE "THE SYNAESTHESIA OF A BLIND SUBJECT WITH COMPARATIVE DATA FROM AN ASYNAESTHETIC BLIND SUBJECT--CHAPTERS 5 THROUGH 7" (COAUTHORED WITH R.H. WHEELER), "ROLE OF EMOTION IN AN SYNAESTHETIC SUBJECT--SUMMARY AND…

THE 346 ENTRIES IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY COVER MATERIAL IN BOOKS, JOURNALS, AND MONOGRAPHS IN FIELDS RELATED TO THE SENSORY IMPAIRED, ESPECIALLY THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED. THE DATES RANGE FROM 1934 TO 1965. (MK)

This article reviews recent research on perception of tangible pictures in sighted and blind people. Haptic picture naming accuracy is dependent upon familiarity and access to semantic memory, just as in visual recognition. Performance is high when haptic picture recognition tasks do not depend upon semantic memory. Viewpoint matters for the ease…

THE FOLLOWING FOUR RESEARCH REPORTS ON ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY FOR THE BLIND BASED ON AURAL INFORMATION ARE CONTAINED IN THIS BULLETIN--"A PSYCHOACOUSTIC STUDY OF FACTORS AFFECTING HUMAN ECHOLOCATION" BY JOHN R. WELCH, "ORIENTATION BY AURAL CLUES" BY IVO KOHLER, "SONAR SYSTEM OF THE BLIND" BY WINTHROP N. KELLOGG, AND "TRIAL OF AN ACOUSTIC BLIND…

Articles report surveys and research studies as well as describe systems in educational technology. Areas treated include the following: multihandicapped blind and deaf blind children in California, by B. Lowenfeld; modern trends in mobility, by J.A. Leonard; factors in the definition of deafness as they relate to incidence and prevalence, by J.…

Provides teachers with an understanding of how sighted children develop concepts about print and how blind children develop concepts about braille. Prereading activities designed to extend young children's concepts about print are adapted for blind children. (HTH)

An adventitiously visually impaired individual examines differences between the neurological, psychological, and educational development of persons blinded either very early in life or much later. (DB)

This article reports on a survey of 32 parents' recollections of when their children first demonstrated an awareness that they were visually impaired. It concludes that children with visual impairments achieve a basic level of understanding that their vision is different from that of others at ages varying from two to nine. (Author/DB)

FOUR RESEARCH STUDIES ON THE BLIND ARE PRESENTED--"CANE TRAVEL--TECHNIQUES AND DIFFICULTIES" BY D. LIDDLE, "THE MUSICAL ABILITY OF BLIND CHILDREN" BY DEREK J. PITTMAN, "THE EVALUATION OF VERBAL PERFORMANCE IN MULTIPLY-HANDICAPPED BLIND CHILDREN" BY W. SCOTT CURTIS, AND "THE EVALUATION AND SIMULATION OF MOBILITY…