Alberto Gallace

In touch with the future

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'In Touch With The Future' expores the latest research from cognitive neuroscience on how humans process tactile information. It reviews the scientific knowledge on themes such as tactile memory, tactile awareness, tactile attention, the role of touch in interpersonal and sexual interactions, and the neurological substrates of touch.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 960g
• ISBN-13: 9780199644469
• ISBN-10: 0199644462
• Artikelnr.: 40306483

Autorenporträt

Alberto Gallace, Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, Charles Spence, Somerville College, Oxford, UK

Inhaltsangabe

* Touch in the laboratory 1: Introducing the sense of touch
* 1: Introduction
* 2: The fundamentals of touch: The organization of the somatosensory
system
* 3: Tactile perceptual organization
* Touch in the laboratory 2: The higher order factors that affect
tactile perception
* 4: The awareness of touch
* 5: A memory for touch
* 6: Tactile attention
* 7: Caressing the skin: The social side of touch
* 8: Outside the boundaries of our bodies: The relationship between
touch and the representation of the body in our mind
* Touch in the real world 1: Overcoming the limitations in tactile
information processing
* 9: Technologies of touch
* 10: Tactile and multisensory warning signals
* Touch in the real world 2: Enhancing the affective design of touch
* 11: Touch in the marketplace: Selling by means of touch
* 12: Touch in the museum: Sculpture, art, aesthetics, and visual
impairment
* 13: Touch in the bedroom: The role of touch in sexual behavior
* 14: Touch in the restaurant: A touch of gastronomy
* Conclusions
* 15: Touching the future
* References