Traditional approaches to human information processing tend to deal with perception and
action planning in isolation, so that an adequate account of the perception-action interface is …

Metacognition concerns the processes by which we monitor and control our own cognitive
processes. It can also be applied to others, in which case it is known as mentalizing. Both …

WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain
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Nonhuman primate and human studies have suggested that populations of neurons in the
posterior parietal cortex (PPC) may represent high-level aspects of action planning that can …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the
cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying …

Research into the perception of space, time and quantity has generated three separate
literatures. That number can be represented spatially is, of course, well accepted and forms …

About 40 years ago, James J. Gibson coined the term “affordance” to describe the action
possibilities offered to an animal by the environment with reference to the animal's action …

The model proposed by the authors of two cortical systems providing 'vision for action'and
'vision for perception', respectively, owed much to the inspiration of Larry Weiskrantz. In the …

The distinction between dorsal and ventral visual processing streams, first proposed by
Ungerleider and Mishkin (1982) and later refined by Milner and Goodale (1995) has been …