Spatially Oriented Behavior

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1 How Do We Direct Our Actions in Space?.
• Different Modes of Processing Visual Spatial Information.
• Role of the Extraretinal Signal in Perceptual Stability of Visual Space.
• The Paralyzed Eye Situation as a Cue for Understanding Visuomotor Localization.
• The Role of Registered vs. Actual Gaze Position in Guiding Behavior.
• 2 Maintenance of Equilibrium During Movement.
• How Is Body Posture Established?.
• How Do Movement and Posture Interact?.
• Coordination Between Posture and Movement in the Quadruped.
• Central Organization of Postural Changes.
• Conclusions.
• 3 Neural Mechanisms of Visual Orientation in Rodents: Targets Versus Places.
• Visually Guided Movements Toward Targets.
• Visually Guided Movements Toward Places.
• 4 Role of the Monkey Superior Colliculus in the Spatial Localization of Saccade Targets.
• Role of the Superior Colliculus in Saccadic Eye Movements.
• Models of the Saccadic Eye Movement System.
• Neural Representations of Saccade Targets.
• 5 Interface of Visual Input and Oculomotor Command for Directing the Gaze on Target.
• Internal Medullary Lamina.
• Experimental Examination of the Hypothesis of Adequate Response.
• Visual Responses to Target Location in Space.
• Discussion.
• 6 Coordination of Eye-Head Movements in Alert Monkeys: Behavior of Eye-Related Neurons in the Brain Stem.
• Experimental Method.
• Behavior of PRF Preoculomotor Neurons During Eye-Head Coordination.
• Coordination of Head and Eyes in the Saccadic Changes of Gaze.
• 7 Contribution of Eye Movement to the Representation of Space.
• How Is Visual Direction Given?.
• What Is the Source of Knowledge of Eye Position?.
• 8 Control of the Optokinetic Reflex by the Nucleus of the Optic Tract in the Cat.
• Functional Anatomy of NOT.
• Relationship Between NOT Output and OKN.
• 9 Development of Optokinetic Nystagmus and Effects of Abnormal Visual Experience During Infancy.
• Human OKN Development.
• Other Studies.
• Future Research.
• 10 Spatially Determined Visual Activity in Early Infancy.
• Appreciation of Spatial Relations.
• Visual Anticipation of Spatiotemporal Events.
• Spatial Sensitivity at Birth.
• 11 Spatial Sense of the Human Infant.
• Experiments in Reaching.
• Experiments in Intermodal Spatial Coordination.
• Orienting to Touch.
• 12 Space, the Organism and Objects, Their Cognitive Elaboration in the Infant.
• The Development of Organized Movements for Tracking a Moving Visual Object.
• 13 Motion Parallax Sensitivity and Space Perception.
• Space Perception.
• Psychophysical Observations in Motion Parallax.
• Implications for Space Perception.
• 14 Perceptual Consequences of Experimental Extraocular Muscle Paralysis.
• The Kernel Observation under Partial Paralysis: Perceived Change in Elevation.
• Quantitative Measurements of Perceived Eye-Level Horizontal.
• Illusory Changes in Visual Localization of the Median Plane.
• Influence of Level of Paralysis.
• Three-Parameter Model of the Influence of Paralysis on Visual Localization and Oculomotor Control.
• Illumination Versus Darkness.
• Auditory-Visual Matches.
• EEPI and Cancellation Are Not Suppressed in Illumination; Visual Localization and Intersensory Localization Are Guided by Cancellation in Darkness.
• A Paradox and Its Resolution.
• Source of EEPI.
• 15 Mechanisms of Space Constancy.
• Beyond Corollary Discharge.
• Rules of Motion Perception During Saccades Versus During Fixation.
• Exploring Space Constancy with Figure-Ground Reversible Images.
• Mechanisms of Stabilization.
• 16 Visual Information Processing for Saccadic Eye Movements.
• ProcessesInvolved in Saccade Generation.
• Retinal Eccentricity and Saccade Direction.
• Saccade Latency.
• Saccade Amplitude.
• 17 Optic Ataxia: A Specific Disorder in Visuomotor Coordination.
• Case Reports.
• Neuropsychological Symptoms.
• Proximal and Distal Deficits in Optic Ataxia.
• Comparison with Findings from Experiments in Monkeys.
• Effects of Altering Spatial Cues on Reaching Behavior in Optic Ataxia.
• 18 Multimodal Structure of the Extrapersonal Space.
• Compartments of Extrapersonal Space.
• Coordinates of Extrapersonal Space.
• Disturbances in the Perception of Objects and Space Following Parietal and Occipital Corex Lesions.
• Multimodal Control of Eye Movements.
• Author Index.