TABLE 4.

Correlations (τ values) between the production of different types of identification responses or the mean exploration times, and the use of specific exploratory procedures in the blind and sighted children.

	Naming responses		Geometrical responses		Texture responses		Mean exploration times
	Blind	Sighted	Blind	Sighted	Blind	Sighted	Blind	Sighted
Bimanual exploration	0.38**	0.14	0.16	–0.04	–0.17	–0.03	−0.38**	0.01
Contour following procedure	0.54**	0.41*	0.31*	0.33*	0.12	–0.15	–0.10	0.09
Symmetrical movements	0.36**	0.16	0.27*	–0.06	–0.17	–0.20	−0.35**	0.02

*Indicates significance with p < 0.05; **Indicates significance with p < 0.01).