Touch Books

New and Published Books

1. Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System

   A Psychophysical and Physiological Analysis

   By George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo

   Series: Scientific Psychology Series

   Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System addresses the fundamental question of whether sensory channels, similar to those known to operate in vision and audition, also operate in the sense of touch. Based on the results of psychophysical and neurophysiological experimentation...

   Published December 16th 2008 by Psychology Press
2. Space and Sense

   By Susanna Millar

   Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

   How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute? This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on...

   Published April 6th 2008 by Psychology Press
3. E.H. Weber On The Tactile Senses

   By E.H. Weber

   Edited by David J. Murray, Helen E. Ross, E.H Weber

   This is a revised edition of "E.H. Weber: The Sense of Touch". The title has been broadened to reflect the fact that Weber explored all the skin senses - and indeed the muscle sense and that mysterious entity "the common feeling". The introduction has been expanded to include further information on...

   Published January 21st 1996 by Psychology Press