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Zeitschriftenartikel:

A. Wagner:
"Pre-Gibsonian Observations on Active Touch";
History of Psychology, 19 (2016), 2; S. 93 - 104.



Kurzfassung englisch:
James J. Gibsonīs (1962) now-classic "Observations on Active Touch" demonstrated the superiority of active over passive touch in object discrimination tasks and thereby exposed the paradigmatic limits of preceding research. Before Gibson, according to the received view, the sense of touch had been treated as a mere receptive channel, ignoring the handīs explorative movements. This article challenges this common narrative by juxtaposing Gibsonīs article with research published in the German-speaking parts of Europe between the early 19th and mid-20th centuries. The concept of "active touch" did not originate from Gibsonīs paper alone, nor should earlier appearances of the term be treated simply as exceptional cases. On the contrary, throughout the 19th century, the concept facilitated fundamental theoretical, cross-disciplinary discussions and ultimately evolved into an object of experimental study on its own. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Schlagworte:
active touch, haptic, tactile


"Offizielle" elektronische Version der Publikation (entsprechend ihrem Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/hop0000028


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