Percept, Decision, Action: Bridging the GapsISBN: 978-0-470-01233-8
Hardcover
314 pages
February 2006
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Active construction of percepts about object location (Dori Derdikman, Marcin Szwed, Knarik Bagdasarian, Per Magne Knutsen, Maciej Pietr, Chunxiu Yu, Amos Arieli and Ehud Ahissar).
Discussion
Neuronal encoding of natural stimuli: the rat tactile system Mathew E. Diamond, Erik Zorzin and Ehsan Arabzadeh).
Discussion.
Cortical commands in active touch (Michael Brecht).
Discussion.
General discussion I.
Switching of sensorimotor transformations: antisaccades and parietal cortex (Shabtai Barash and Mingsha Zhang).
Discussion.
Saccade initiation and the reliability of motor signals involved in the generation of saccadic eye movements (David L. Sparks and Xintian Hu).
Discussion.
Multiple roles of experience in decoding the neural representation of sensory stimuli (Joshua I. Gold).
Discussion.
General discussion II.
Computational approaches to visual decision making (Jochen Ditterich).
Discussion.
The inferior parietal lobule: where action becomes perception (Giacomo Rizzolatti, Pier Francesco Ferrari, Stefano Rozzi and Leonardo Fogassi).
Discussion.
The evolution of the neocortex in mammals: intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to the cortical phenotype (Sarah J. Karlen and Leah Krubitzer).
Discussion.
General discussion III.
Decoding the temporal evolution of a simple perceptual act (Ranulfo Romo, Adrián Hernández, Antonio Zainos, Luis Lemus, Victor de Lafuente, Rogelio Luna and Verónica Nacher).
Discussion.
Probabilistic mechanisms in sensorimotor control (Konrad P. Körding and Daniel M. Wolpert).
Discussion.
Human brain activation during viewing of dynamic natural scenes (Uri Hasson and Rafael Malach).
Discussion.
Representation of object images by combinations of visual features in the macaque inferior temporal cortex (Manabu Tanifuji, Kazushige Tsunoda and Yukako Yamane).
Discussion.
General discussion IV.
Psychophysical investigations into cortical encoding of vibrotactile stimuli (Justin A. Harris).
Discussion.
Why is language unique to humans (Jacques Mehler, Marina Nespor, Mohinish Shukla and Marcela Peña)?
Discussion.
Final general discussion.
Index of Contributors.
Subject Index.