30 children (18 boys and 12 girls) with a mean age of 4 yr., 8 mo. were subjects in an experiment testing the relative dominance of visual and tactual modalities in mirror-image shape discrimination. The sets of unfamiliar stimuli (written and wooden letters of the English alphabet, P, B, C, U, R, F) were presented to the children randomly. Children matched the stimulus with either another visual or another tactual shape. Analysis suggests touch is not inferior to vision in mirror-image shape discrimination. These results are different from those of previous reports comparing tactual and visual discrimination with nonmirror-image patterns.
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