Mental majorization of figures tactilely explored by sighted and congenitally blind individuals
Keywords:
blind vs. sighted individuals; imagery; mental scaling
Abstract
The study focused on the recognition of tactile figures by blind and sighted individuals. The findings allow the conclusion that, while visualizing shapes explored by touch, sighted individuals retain the size of the objects in their working memory and while comparing figures of various sizes they perform the process of mental scaling. By contrast, the size of objects does not seem to be of significance in mental representations created by blind individuals.
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Arditi, A., Holtzman, J. D. i Kosslyn, S. M. (1988). Mental imagery and sensory experience in congenital blindness. Neuropsychologia, 26, 1-12.
Bennett, D. J. i Warren, W. (2002). Size scaling: Retinal or environmental frame of reference? Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 462-477.
Cornoldi, C. i Vecchi, T. (2003). Visuo-spatial working memory and individual differences. Hove–New York: Taylor and Francis/Psychology Press.
Craddock, M. i Lawson, R. (2009). Size-sensitive perceptual representations underlie visual and haptic object recognition. PLoS One, 4, e8009.
Francuz, P. (2007). Teoria wyobraźni Stephana Kosslyna. Próba reinterpretacji. W: P. Francuz (red.), Obrazy w umyśle. Studia nad percepcją i wyobraźnią (s. 149-189). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar.
Kennedy, J. M. i Juricevic, I. (2006). Blind man draws using diminution in three dimensions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 506-509.
Kerr, N. H. (1983). The role of vision in “visual imagery” experiments: Evidence from the congenitally blind. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 112, 265-277.
Kosslyn, S. M., Pinker, S., Smith, G. i Shwartz, S. P. (1979). On the demystification of mental imagery. The Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 2, 535-581.
Larsen, A. i Bundesen, C. (1978). Size scaling in human pattern recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 4, 1-20.
Marmor, G. i Zaback, L. (1976). Mental rotation by the blind: Does mental rotation depend on visual imagery? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2, 515-521.
Młodkowski, J. (1998). Aktywność wizualna człowieka. Warszawa–Łódź: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.
Pylyshyn, Z. (2007). Spór o wyobraźnię: Medium analogowe czy wiedza ukryta? W: Z. Chlewiński (red.), Psychologia poznawcza w trzech ostatnich dekadach XX wieku (s. 366-408). Gdańsk: Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne.
Slater, A., Mattock, A. i Brown, E. (1990). Size constancy at birth: Newborn infants’ responses to retinal and real size. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 49, 314-322.
Ullman, S. (1989). Aligning pictoral description: An approach to object recognition. Cognition, 32, 193-254.
Vanlierde, A. i Wanet-Defalque, M.-C. (2004). Abilities and strategies of blind and sighted subjects in visuo-spatial imagery. Acta Psychologica, 116, 205-222.
Vanlierde, A. i Wanet-Defalque, M.-C. (2005). The role of visual experience in mental imagery. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 3, 165-178.
Vecchi, T. (1998). Visuo-spatial imagery in congenitally totally blind people. Memory, 6, 91-102.
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