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 Max von
senden
Information on Von Senden
The German
academic Von Senden tested Molyneux’s
question by analyzing case studies of patients recovering from congenital
blindness in the 1930s, using only data from their medical records. His
conclusion was that people who were blind had little concept of “visual”
aesthetics, as they could not relate visual perceptions to tactile ones.
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 Geza revesz
Information
on Revesz
Born in Hungary, Revesz
worked in Holland.
His pioneering work in the early decades of the 20th Century included
observations and case studies of those born blind. In this study he
developed a theory of haptic and visual types,
concluding that Von Senden was wrong on certain
aspects of his theory, but concurred that it was not possible for blind
people to appreciate art as sighted people do.
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Eco
Ancient Greek, Verb, pronounced Ekh-o. The
Transliterated word is Echo. New Testament Greek Lexicon
“[To] have (hold) in the hand, in the sense of wearing, to
have (hold) possession of the mind (refers to alarm, agitating emotions,
etc.), to hold fast keep, to have or comprise or involve, to regard or consider
or hold as.”
Source: http://www.crosswalk.com
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 Richard L
Gregory
Information on Gregory
In the 1960s, Gregory was the first psychologist to
reproduce Berkeley’s study. During this experiment he observed and tested
a man recovering from congenital cataracts. Gregory concluded that SB
could relate touch and vision directly —a concept named cross modal
transfer. He also concluded that he had aesthetic appreciation.
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 John
Kennedy
Information on
Kennedy
Although
Northern Irish, Kennedy has worked in Canada since the 1970s. His work is
as controversial as it is pioneering. He researches pictorial
representation, drawing and blindness through case study work. Kennedy
concludes that all people, both blind and sighted, have an inherent
ability to understand art works, including 2D visual metaphor and
perspective.
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 Oliver Sacks
Information on Sacks
This famous
British physician works in the US, and has published studies on blindness amongst
his vast corpus of work in the 1990s. He has reproduced Gregory’s study of
SB on a patient called Virgil, reaching similar conclusions. He has also
conducted a social study of a colour blind
community, concluding their culture accommodated their blindness.
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WH Charles
Spence
Information
on Spence
Working at
Oxford University, the British psychologist Spence conducts pioneering
research on the interactions between senses since the 1990s. Although not
conducting experiments on blindness in particular, Spence concludes that
the senses work in concert with each other; i.e. the perception of one
sense is affected by the information of another.
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