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Keeping the world at hand: rapid visuomotor processing for hand-object interactions

Makin, T. R., Holmes, N., Brozzoli, C. and Farnè, A. (2012) Keeping the world at hand: rapid visuomotor processing for hand-object interactions. Experimental Brain Research, 219 (4). 421--428. ISSN 0014-4819

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3089-5

Abstract/Summary

The existence of hand-centred visual processing has long been established in the macaque premotor cortex. These hand-centred mechanisms have been thought to play some general role in the sensory guidance of movements towards objects, or, more recently, in the sensory guidance of object avoidance movements. We suggest that these hand-centred mechanisms play a specific and prominent role in the rapid selection and control of manual actions following sudden changes in the properties of the objects relevant for hand-object interactions. We discuss recent anatomical and physiological evidence from human and non-human primates, which indicates the existence of rapid processing of visual information for hand-object interactions. This new evidence demonstrates how several stages of the hierarchical visual processing system may be bypassed, feeding the motor system with hand-related visual inputs within just 70 ms following a sudden event. This time window is early enough, and this processing rapid enough, to allow the generation and control of rapid hand-centred avoidance and acquisitive actions, for aversive and desired objects, respectively

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN)
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Neuroscience
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Perception and Action
ID Code:28748
Uncontrolled Keywords:Motor control – Peripersonal space – Reference frames – Spatial representation – Superior colliculus
Additional Information:For erratum see related URL.
Publisher:Springer

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