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Research article summary:
Multisensory spatial representations in eye-centered coordinates for reaching.
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Humans can reach for objects with their hands whether the objects are seen, heard or touched. Thus, the position of objects is recoded in a joint-centered frame of reference regardless of the sensory modality involved. Our study indicates that this frame ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2002Feb
in Journal: Cognition
(Language : eng)
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1. Cognition.
2002 Feb;83(1):B1-11
Multisensory spatial representations in eye-centered coordinates for reaching.
Pouget A, Ducom JC, Torri J, Bavelier D
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. alex@bcs.rochester.edu
Humans can reach for objects with their hands whether the objects are seen, heard or touched. Thus, the position of objects is recoded in a joint-centered frame of reference regardless of the sensory modality involved. Our study indicates that this frame of reference is not the only one shared across sensory modalities. The location of reaching targets is also encoded in eye-centered coordinates, whether the targets are visual, auditory, proprioceptive or imaginary. Furthermore, the remembered eye-centered location is updated after each eye and head movement. This is quite surprising since, in principle, a reaching motor command can be computed from any non-visual modality without ever recovering the eye-centered location of the stimulus. This finding may reflect the predominant role of vision in human spatial perception.
PMID : 11814488 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Alexandre | Pouget | A |
| Jean Christophe | Ducom | JC |
| Jeffrey | Torri | J |
| Daphne | Bavelier | D |
Affiliation: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. alex@bcs.rochester.edu
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