Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T08:49:03.825Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Neuropsychology and the art of reaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Fred H. Previc
Affiliation:
Crew Technology Division, Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, TX 78235-5104 Electronic mall: previc%[email protected]

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Author's Response
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Goodale, M. A., Milner, A. D., Jakobson, L. S., fie Carey, D. P. (1991) A neurological dissociation between perceiving objects and grasping them. Nature 349:154–56. [rFHP]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guiard, Y. (1987) Precursors to what? Theory is lacking for handedness in humans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10:276–77. [rFHP]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jeannerod, M. (1988) The neural and behavioural organization of goaldirected movements. Clarendon Press. [rFHP, IQW]Google Scholar
Larson, C. F., Dodson, D. L. & Ward, J. P. (1989) Hand preferences and whole-body turning biases of lesser bushbabies (Galago senegalensis). Brain Behavior and Evolution 33:261–67. [IQW]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
MacNeilage, P. F. (1990) Grasping modern primates: The evolutionary context. In: Vision and action: The control of grasping, ed. Goodale, M.. Ablex Publishing. [IQW]Google Scholar
Maunsell, J. H. R. & Van Essen, D. C. (1987) The topographic organization of the middle temporal visual area in the macaque monkey: Representational biases and the relationship to callosal connections and myeloarchitectonic boundaries, Journal of Comparative Neurology 266:535–55. [rFHP]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mounteastle, V. B., Lynch, J. C., Georgopoulos, A. & Sakata, H. (1975) Posterior parietal association cortex of the monkey: Command functions for operation within extrapersonal space. Journal of Neurophysiology 38:871908. [IQW]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Paillard, J. (1982) The contribution of peripheral and central vision to visually guided reaching. In; Analysis of visual behavior, ed. Ingle, D. J., Goodale, M. A. & Mansfield, R. J. W.. MIT Press. [rFHP]Google Scholar
Perenin, M. T. & Vighetto, A. (1983) Optic ataxia: A specific disorder in visuomotor coordination. In: Spatially oriented behavior, ed. Hein, A. & Jeannerod, M.. Springer-Verlag. [rFHP]Google Scholar
Previc, F. H. (1990) Functional specialization in the lower and upper visual fields in humans: Its ecological origins and neurophysiological implications. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13:519–59. [IQW]CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Previc, F. H. (1991) A general theory concerning the prenatal origins of cerebral lateralization in humans. Psychological Review 98:299334. [rFHP]CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whishaw, I. Q. & Pellis, S. M. (1990) The structure of skilled forelimb reaching in the rat: A proximally driven movement with a single distal rotatory component. Behavioral Brain Research 41:7791. [IQW]CrossRefGoogle Scholar