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Spatially Oriented Behavior [electronic resource] / edited by A. Hein, M. Jeannerod.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1983Edition: 1st ed. 1983Description: 365 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461254881
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 153 23
LOC classification:
  • BF201
Online resources:
Contents:
1 How Do We Direct Our Actions in Space? -- Different Modes of Processing Visual Spatial Information -- Role of the Extraretinal Signal in Perceptual Stability of Visual Space -- The Paralyzed Eye Situation as a Cue for Understanding Visuomotor Localization -- The Role of Registered vs. Actual Gaze Position in Guiding Behavior -- 2 Maintenance of Equilibrium During Movement -- How Is Body Posture Established? -- How Do Movement and Posture Interact? -- Coordination Between Posture and Movement in the Quadruped -- Central Organization of Postural Changes -- Conclusions -- 3 Neural Mechanisms of Visual Orientation in Rodents: Targets Versus Places -- Visually Guided Movements Toward Targets -- Visually Guided Movements Toward Places -- Conclusions -- 4 Role of the Monkey Superior Colliculus in the Spatial Localization of Saccade Targets -- Role of the Superior Colliculus in Saccadic Eye Movements -- Models of the Saccadic Eye Movement System -- Neural Representations of Saccade Targets -- 5 Interface of Visual Input and Oculomotor Command for Directing the Gaze on Target -- Internal Medullary Lamina -- Experimental Examination of the Hypothesis of Adequate Response -- Visual Responses to Target Location in Space -- Discussion -- 6 Coordination of Eye-Head Movements in Alert Monkeys: Behavior of Eye-Related Neurons in the Brain Stem -- Experimental Method -- Behavior of PRF Preoculomotor Neurons During Eye-Head Coordination -- Coordination of Head and Eyes in the Saccadic Changes of Gaze -- Conclusions -- 7 Contribution of Eye Movement to the Representation of Space -- How Is Visual Direction Given? -- What Is the Source of Knowledge of Eye Position? -- Conclusions -- 8 Control of the Optokinetic Reflex by the Nucleus of the Optic Tract in the Cat -- Functional Anatomy of NOT -- Relationship Between NOT Output and OKN -- Conclusions -- 9 Development of Optokinetic Nystagmus and Effects of Abnormal Visual Experience During Infancy -- Human OKN Development -- Other Studies -- Future Research -- 10 Spatially Determined Visual Activity in Early Infancy -- Appreciation of Spatial Relations -- Visual Anticipation of Spatiotemporal Events -- Spatial Sensitivity at Birth -- Conclusions -- 11 Spatial Sense of the Human Infant -- Experiments in Reaching -- Experiments in Intermodal Spatial Coordination -- Orienting to Touch -- Conclusions -- 12 Space, the Organism and Objects, Their Cognitive Elaboration in the Infant -- The Development of Organized Movements for Tracking a Moving Visual Object -- 13 Motion Parallax Sensitivity and Space Perception -- Space Perception -- Psychophysical Observations in Motion Parallax -- Implications for Space Perception -- 14 Perceptual Consequences of Experimental Extraocular Muscle Paralysis -- The Kernel Observation under Partial Paralysis: Perceived Change in Elevation -- Quantitative Measurements of Perceived Eye-Level Horizontal -- Illusory Changes in Visual Localization of the Median Plane -- Influence of Level of Paralysis -- Three-Parameter Model of the Influence of Paralysis on Visual Localization and Oculomotor Control -- Illumination Versus Darkness -- Auditory-Visual Matches -- EEPI and Cancellation Are Not Suppressed in Illumination; Visual Localization and Intersensory Localization Are Guided by Cancellation in Darkness -- A Paradox and Its Resolution -- Source of EEPI -- 15 Mechanisms of Space Constancy -- Beyond Corollary Discharge -- Rules of Motion Perception During Saccades Versus During Fixation -- Exploring Space Constancy with Figure-Ground Reversible Images -- Mechanisms of Stabilization -- 16 Visual Information Processing for Saccadic Eye Movements -- ProcessesInvolved in Saccade Generation -- Retinal Eccentricity and Saccade Direction -- Saccade Latency -- Saccade Amplitude -- Conclusions -- 17 Optic Ataxia: A Specific Disorder in Visuomotor Coordination -- Case Reports -- Neuropsychological Symptoms -- Proximal and Distal Deficits in Optic Ataxia -- Comparison with Findings from Experiments in Monkeys -- Effects of Altering Spatial Cues on Reaching Behavior in Optic Ataxia -- Discussion -- 18 Multimodal Structure of the Extrapersonal Space -- Compartments of Extrapersonal Space -- Coordinates of Extrapersonal Space -- Disturbances in the Perception of Objects and Space Following Parietal and Occipital Corex Lesions -- Multimodal Control of Eye Movements -- Conclusions -- Author Index.
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1 How Do We Direct Our Actions in Space? -- Different Modes of Processing Visual Spatial Information -- Role of the Extraretinal Signal in Perceptual Stability of Visual Space -- The Paralyzed Eye Situation as a Cue for Understanding Visuomotor Localization -- The Role of Registered vs. Actual Gaze Position in Guiding Behavior -- 2 Maintenance of Equilibrium During Movement -- How Is Body Posture Established? -- How Do Movement and Posture Interact? -- Coordination Between Posture and Movement in the Quadruped -- Central Organization of Postural Changes -- Conclusions -- 3 Neural Mechanisms of Visual Orientation in Rodents: Targets Versus Places -- Visually Guided Movements Toward Targets -- Visually Guided Movements Toward Places -- Conclusions -- 4 Role of the Monkey Superior Colliculus in the Spatial Localization of Saccade Targets -- Role of the Superior Colliculus in Saccadic Eye Movements -- Models of the Saccadic Eye Movement System -- Neural Representations of Saccade Targets -- 5 Interface of Visual Input and Oculomotor Command for Directing the Gaze on Target -- Internal Medullary Lamina -- Experimental Examination of the Hypothesis of Adequate Response -- Visual Responses to Target Location in Space -- Discussion -- 6 Coordination of Eye-Head Movements in Alert Monkeys: Behavior of Eye-Related Neurons in the Brain Stem -- Experimental Method -- Behavior of PRF Preoculomotor Neurons During Eye-Head Coordination -- Coordination of Head and Eyes in the Saccadic Changes of Gaze -- Conclusions -- 7 Contribution of Eye Movement to the Representation of Space -- How Is Visual Direction Given? -- What Is the Source of Knowledge of Eye Position? -- Conclusions -- 8 Control of the Optokinetic Reflex by the Nucleus of the Optic Tract in the Cat -- Functional Anatomy of NOT -- Relationship Between NOT Output and OKN -- Conclusions -- 9 Development of Optokinetic Nystagmus and Effects of Abnormal Visual Experience During Infancy -- Human OKN Development -- Other Studies -- Future Research -- 10 Spatially Determined Visual Activity in Early Infancy -- Appreciation of Spatial Relations -- Visual Anticipation of Spatiotemporal Events -- Spatial Sensitivity at Birth -- Conclusions -- 11 Spatial Sense of the Human Infant -- Experiments in Reaching -- Experiments in Intermodal Spatial Coordination -- Orienting to Touch -- Conclusions -- 12 Space, the Organism and Objects, Their Cognitive Elaboration in the Infant -- The Development of Organized Movements for Tracking a Moving Visual Object -- 13 Motion Parallax Sensitivity and Space Perception -- Space Perception -- Psychophysical Observations in Motion Parallax -- Implications for Space Perception -- 14 Perceptual Consequences of Experimental Extraocular Muscle Paralysis -- The Kernel Observation under Partial Paralysis: Perceived Change in Elevation -- Quantitative Measurements of Perceived Eye-Level Horizontal -- Illusory Changes in Visual Localization of the Median Plane -- Influence of Level of Paralysis -- Three-Parameter Model of the Influence of Paralysis on Visual Localization and Oculomotor Control -- Illumination Versus Darkness -- Auditory-Visual Matches -- EEPI and Cancellation Are Not Suppressed in Illumination; Visual Localization and Intersensory Localization Are Guided by Cancellation in Darkness -- A Paradox and Its Resolution -- Source of EEPI -- 15 Mechanisms of Space Constancy -- Beyond Corollary Discharge -- Rules of Motion Perception During Saccades Versus During Fixation -- Exploring Space Constancy with Figure-Ground Reversible Images -- Mechanisms of Stabilization -- 16 Visual Information Processing for Saccadic Eye Movements -- ProcessesInvolved in Saccade Generation -- Retinal Eccentricity and Saccade Direction -- Saccade Latency -- Saccade Amplitude -- Conclusions -- 17 Optic Ataxia: A Specific Disorder in Visuomotor Coordination -- Case Reports -- Neuropsychological Symptoms -- Proximal and Distal Deficits in Optic Ataxia -- Comparison with Findings from Experiments in Monkeys -- Effects of Altering Spatial Cues on Reaching Behavior in Optic Ataxia -- Discussion -- 18 Multimodal Structure of the Extrapersonal Space -- Compartments of Extrapersonal Space -- Coordinates of Extrapersonal Space -- Disturbances in the Perception of Objects and Space Following Parietal and Occipital Corex Lesions -- Multimodal Control of Eye Movements -- Conclusions -- Author Index.

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