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Word: hapticals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professor made this discovery while studying the drawings and sculptures of blind children. Most of them, he noticed, exaggerated the size of the hands (see cut) and emphasized straining muscles. But Lowenfeld found that this haptic* quality was not confined to blind people, and that not all blind people had it. He concluded that hapticals and visuals are born, not made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Are You Haptical? | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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