?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=On+the+matching+of+seen+and+felt+shape+by+newly+sighted+subjects&rft.creator=Schwenkler%2C+Dr.+John&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=How+do+we+recognize+identities+between+seen+shapes+and+felt+ones%3F+Is+this+due+to+associative+learning%2C+or+to+intrinsic+connections+these+sensory+modalities%3F+We+can+address+this+question+by+testing+the+capacities+of+newly+sighted+subjects+to+match+seen+and+felt+shapes%2C+but+only+if+it+is+shown+that+the+subjects+can+see+the+objects+well+enough+to+form+adequate+visual+representations+of+their+shapes.+In+light+of+this%2C+a+recent+study+by+R.+Held+and+colleagues+fails+to+demonstrate+that+their+newly+sighted+subjects%E2%80%99+inability+to+match+seen+and+felt+shape+was+due+to+a+lack+of+intermodal+connections+rather+than+a+purely+visual+deficit%2C+as+they+may+not+have+been+able+visually+to+represent+3D+shape+in+the+perspective-invariant+way+required+for+intermodal+matching.+However%2C+the+study+could+be+modified+in+any+of+several+ways+to+help+avoid+this+problem.&rft.date=2012&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8196%2F1%2Fmolyneux%2520-%2520icomment.pdf&rft.identifier=++Schwenkler%2C+Dr.+John++(2012)+On+the+matching+of+seen+and+felt+shape+by+newly+sighted+subjects.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8196%2F