Stereognosis (also known as haptic perception or tactile gnosis) is the ability to perceive and recognize the form of an object in the absence of visual and auditory information, by using tactile information to provide cues from texture, size, spatial properties, and temperature, etc. In humans, this sense, along with tactile spatial acuity, vibra...
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ability to perceive the weight and form of an object
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Knowing and being able to recognise the solid form of objects by tactile inspection. This ability is heavily lateralised so that the right hand loses this ability with a left-hemisphere lesion (and vice versa).
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<psychology> The ability to recognise objects by sense of touch. ... (13 Nov 1997) ...
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(ster″e-og-no´sis) the sense by which the form of objects is perceived. adj., stereognos´tic., adj.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ster′ē-og-nō′sis Definitions: 1. The appreciation of the form of an object by means of touch.
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the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
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