Grasping the non-conscious: Preserved grip scaling to unseen objects for immediate but not delayed grasping following a unilateral lesion to primary visual cortex

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 908-924

  Whitwell, Robert L ^a   Striemer, Christopher L ^a   Nicolle, David A ^b   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindsight; Dorsal stream; Grasping; Perception action; V1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; EYE FIXATION; EYE HAND COORDINATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENICULOSTRIATE PATHWAY; HAND GRIP; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; STROKE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79954464586     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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