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Coming to grips with vision and touch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2007

Melvyn A. Goodale  and
Jonathan S. Cant
Melvyn A. Goodale
Affiliation:
CIHR Group on Action and Perception, Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C2, Canada. [email protected]@uwo.cahttp://www.ssc.uwo.ca/psychology/faculty/goodale/
Jonathan S. Cant
Affiliation:
CIHR Group on Action and Perception, Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C2, Canada. [email protected]@uwo.cahttp://www.ssc.uwo.ca/psychology/faculty/goodale/
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Abstract

Dijkerman & de Haan (D&dH) propose a convincing model of somatosensory organization that is inspired by earlier perception-action models of the visual system. In this commentary, we suggest that the dorsal and ventral visual streams both contribute to the control of action, but in different ways. Using the example of grip and load force calibration, we show how the ventral stream can invoke stored information about the material properties of objects originally derived from the somatosensory system.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 209 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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