Knowing Hands
The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control

Knowing Hands analyzes the cognitive psychology of manual control.

David A. Rosenbaum (Author)

9781107476646, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 February 2017

332 pages
22.5 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg

'Rosenbaum's Knowing Hands provides a first-of-its-kind overview of the cognitive psychology of the planning and control of daily manual actions with hands … for those students and faculty who are interested in cognitive psychology, perception, artificial intelligence, and clinical Neuroscience.' CHOICE

Whenever you get dressed, carry objects, write, draw, or gesture, you express knowledge about how to get things done with your hands. Ironically, that knowledge is often difficult to express. Typically you can't say what you know. Still, it would be enormously useful to identify the knowledge underlying manual control. The design of equipment and transportation systems might better anticipate the abilities and limitations of users, and methods of teaching and rehabilitating skills might improve. This book, the first on the cognitive psychology of manual control, uncovers the hidden knowledge that hands express. Organized around key topics in this emerging area, including the role of the will in manual control, illusions concerning hand position sense, and the coordination of manual actions with others, Knowing Hands explains the planning and control of manual actions in everyday life.

Preface
1. Introducing hands
2. Building hands
3. Energizing hands
4. Willing hands
5. Seeing hands
6. Hearing hands
7. Feeling hands
8. Joining hands
9. Extending hands
Notes
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication [CFZ]