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Visuomotor extrapolation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

David Whitney
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, and The Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95618. dwhitney@ucdavis.eduhttp://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/content/Labs/Whitney/

Abstract

Accurate perception of moving objects would be useful; accurate visually guided action is crucial. Visual motion across the scene influences perceived object location and the trajectory of reaching movements to objects. In this commentary, I propose that the visual system assigns the position of any object based on the predominant motion present in the scene, and that this is used to guide reaching movements to compensate for delays in visuomotor processing.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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