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Separate visual pathways for perception and action.

M A Goodale1, A D Milner

  • 1Dept of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

Trends in Neurosciences
|January 1, 1992
PubMed
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Neuropsychological evidence suggests distinct neural pathways for visual perception and action control. The ventral stream aids object recognition, while the dorsal stream guides visually-guided actions.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Visual Processing

Background:

  • Neuropsychological, electrophysiological, and behavioral studies indicate separate neural systems for visual perception and action control.
  • Object recognition may rely on different computational processes than those used for visually guided grasping.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a model differentiating the neural substrates for visual perception and the visual control of actions.
  • To delineate the roles of the ventral and dorsal visual streams in these distinct functions.

Main Methods:

  • Review and synthesis of existing neuropsychological, electrophysiological, and behavioral evidence.
  • Theoretical proposal based on established neuroanatomical pathways.

Main Results:

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  • Evidence suggests distinct neural substrates for visual perception versus visual control of actions.
  • The ventral stream (striate cortex to inferotemporal cortex) is implicated in object identification.
  • The dorsal stream (striate cortex to posterior parietal region) is implicated in sensorimotor transformations for visually guided actions.

Conclusions:

  • The ventral and dorsal visual streams serve distinct roles in visual processing.
  • Ventral stream supports perceptual identification, while the dorsal stream supports visually guided actions.