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Real action in a virtual world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Melvyn A. Goodale
Melvyn A. Goodale
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canadamgoodale@uwo.ca http://www.sscl.uwo.ca/psychology/faculty/goodale/
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Abstract

O'Regan & Noë run into some difficulty in trying to reconcile their “seeing as acting” proposal with the perception and action account of the functions of the two streams of visual projections in the primate cerebral cortex. I suggest that part of the problem is their reluctance to acknowledge that the mechanisms in the ventral stream may play a more critical role in visual awareness and qualia than mechanisms in the dorsal stream.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 984 - 985
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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