"Real-time" obstacle avoidance in the absence of primary visual cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 37, 2009, Pages 15996-16001

  Striemer, Christopher L ^a   Chapman, Craig S ^a   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindsight; Consciousness; Dorsal stream; Visual pathways; Visuomotor control

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349448698     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905549106     Document Type: Article

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