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Close coordination between recognition and action: Really two separate streams?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2007

Markus Graf
Affiliation:
Department for Cognitive and Computational Psychophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. markus.graf@tuebingen.mpg.dehttp://www.kyb.mpg.de/~grafm

Abstract

Somewhat in contrast to their proposal of two separate somatosensory streams, Dijkerman & de Haan (D&dH) propose that tactile recognition involves active manual exploration, and therefore involves parietal cortex. I argue that interactions from perception for action to object recognition can be found also in vision. Furthermore, there is evidence that perception for action and perception for recognition rely on similar processing principles.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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