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SUBMITTER: Striemer CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2747232 | biostudies-other | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Striemer Christopher L CL Chapman Craig S CS Goodale Melvyn A MA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090902 37
When we reach toward objects, we easily avoid potential obstacles located in the workspace. Previous studies suggest that obstacle avoidance relies on mechanisms in the dorsal visual stream in the posterior parietal cortex. One fundamental question that remains unanswered is where the visual inputs to these dorsal-stream mechanisms are coming from. Here, we provide compelling evidence that these mechanisms can operate in "real-time" without direct input from primary visual cortex (V1). In our fi ...[more]