ABSTRACT
Many researchers have been interested in tactile perception in blind people, because it is there that we are able to study the sense of touch without the intervention of visual experience or visual imagery. Some blind persons have never seen. These individuals must base their understanding of space on the senses of touch, proprioception, audition, and perhaps, olfaction. Do blind persons imagine objects as we do? Do they understand space in the same ways that the rest of us do? Do blind persons have images? These questions and many more will be addressed in this chapter.
