Spatial Processing in Navigation, Imagery and Perception

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Preface

Chapter 1 SPATIAL PROCESSING DURING MENTAL IMAGERY: A NEUROFUNCTIONAL THEORY

SPATIAL PROCESSING DURING MENTAL IMAGERY: A NEUROFUNCTIONAL THEORY

SUBSYSTEMS OF LATE VISUAL PERCEPTION AND VISUAL MENTAL IMAGERY

THE VISUAL BUFFER

THE ATTENTION WINDOW

THE VENTRAL AND DORSAL SYSTEMS

ASSOCIATIVE MEMORIES

INFORMATION SHUNTING

ATTENTION SHIFTING

CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Chapter 2 THE ROLE OF IMAGERY IN NAVIGATION: NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

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Chapter 3 FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENCE OF SPATIAL IMAGES PRODUCED BY PERCEPTION AND SPATIAL LANGUAGE

1. SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS FROM LANGUAGE AND PERCEPTION

2. SPATIAL IMAGES

3. A MODEL OF SPATIAL IMAGE PROCESSING

4. SPATIAL UPDATING OF SINGLE TARGETS

5. SPATIAL UPDATING OF MULTIPLE TARGETS

6. JUDGMENT OF ALLOCENTRIC DIRECTION AND DISTANCE

7. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH

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Chapter 4 SPATIAL PROCESSING AND VIEW- DEPENDENT REPRESENTATIONS

1. INTRODUCTION: VIEW-DEPENDENT REPRESENTATIONS

2. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VIEW- DEPENDENT REPRESENTATIONS

3. MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Chapter 5 MODELING MENTAL SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING

An AI Perspective

1. MENTAL SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING

2. MODELS OF SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING

3. CASIMIR: AN ARCHITECTURE FOR MENTAL SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING

4. CHALLENGES FROM AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POINT OF VIEW

5. ASSESSING AND VALIDATING MODELS OF MENTAL SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING

6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

7. REFERENCES

Chapter 6 OPTIC ATAXIA: A GATEWAY TO THE HUMAN VISUAL ACTION SYSTEM

1. THE TWO VISUAL STREAMS HYPOTHESIS

2. GRASPING VISUAL ILLUSIONS: COMPLEMENTARY EVIDENCE FOR TWO VISUAL STREAMS?

3. DELAYED MOVEMENTS: TIMING MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

4. INTERACTING STREAMS

5. PERSPECTIVES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Chapter 7 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN COGNITIVE SPACE AND MOTOR ACTIVITY13

1. ONE-STEP UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE: THE INDUCED ROELOFS EFFECT

2. TWO-STEP UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE: INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS

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Chapter 8 CROSS- MODAL INVOLVEMENT OF VISUAL CORTEX IN TACTILE PERCEPTION

1. INTRODUCTION

2. VISUAL CORTICAL INVOLVEMENT IN TACTILE PERCEPTION IN THE SIGHTED

3. DOES VISUAL IMAGERY MEDIATE CROSS- MODAL INVOLVEMENT OF VISUAL CORTEX IN TOUCH?

4. CROSS-MODAL INVOLVEMENT OF VISUAL CORTICAL AREAS IN TACTILE PERCEPTION IN THE BLIND

5. EFFECT OF SHORT-TERM VISUAL DEPRIVATION ON TOUCH

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Chapter 9 NEUROANATOMY OF THE PARIETAL CORTEX

1. GROSS ANATOMICAL SUBDIVISION

2. CONNECTIONS OF THE PARIETAL CORTEX

3. FUNCTIONS CONTROLLED BY THE PARIETAL CORTEX

4. CONCLUSION

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Chapter 10 SPATIAL MAPS, FEATURE INTEGRATION AND PARIETAL FUNCTION: IMPLICATIONS FROM THE STUDY OF SPATIAL DEFICITS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. WHAT IS PERCEIVED WITHOUT SPATIAL AWARENESS?

3. SPATIAL REFERENCE FRAMES AND SPATIAL DEFICITS?

4. ATTENTION, PARIETAL FUNCTION AND BINDING

5. WHERE IS ATTENTION WHEN SPACE PERCEPTION IS LOST?

6. LESION STUDIES IN AN ERA OF BRAIN IMAGING

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Chapter 11 PIGS IN SPACE: HOW WE RECOGNIZE ROTATED OBJECTS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. MENTAL ROTATION

3. EXTRACTING SHAPE INFORMATION

4. PERCEPTION OF ORIENTATION

5. CONCLUSIONS

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Chapter 12 FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY OF MENTAL ROTATION PERFORMANCE

1. DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SPATIAL COGNITION AND MENTAL ROTATION

2. FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY OF MENTAL ROTATION

3. LATERALISATION AND MENTAL ROTATION

4. GENDER DIFFERENCES

5. INDIVIDUAL STRATEGIES

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Chapter 13 SPATIAL ORIENTATION AND NAVIGATION IN MICROGRAVITY

1. INTRODUCTION

2. EVA DISORIENTATION AND HEIGHT VERTIGO

3. 3D NAVIGATION PROBLEMS

4. RELATED THEORIES AND EXPERIMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

Chapter 14 SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE RAT: CASE STUDY OR PERSPECTIVE ON EPISODIC MEMORY?

1. FROM STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR TO SPATIAL MEMORY: A HISTORICAL DETOUR

2. SPATIAL MEMORY IN THE LABORATORY

3. A DUAL MAP TO LINK EPISODES ON A SPATIO- TEMPORAL FRAMEWORK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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Chapter 15 SENSORIMOTOR TRANSFORMATIONS IN SPATIAL ORIENTATION RELATIVE TO GRAVITY

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE FORWARD MODEL OF VESTIBULAR INFORMATION PROCESSING

3. AMBIGUOUS STIMULUS CONFIGURATIONS

4. SOME REASONS WHY JERK SIGNALS ARE USEFUL

5. SOLVING THE INVERSE PROBLEM OF VESTIBULAR INFORMATION PROCESSING

6. SUBSTITUTES OF HEAD ANGULAR VELOCITY INFORMATION

7. TRANSIENT HEAD ACCELERATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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Chapter 16 SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL OF HUMAN DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR IN SPACE IMPLEMENTED INTO A HOMINOID ROBOT

1. INTRODUCTION

2. A SIMPLE PROTOTYPE OF SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION AND ITS FORMALIZATION ( MODELING)

3. CONCEPT OF SENSOR SYSTEMS

4. BASIC CONCEPTS OF SENSOR FUSION

5. SENSORY FEEDBACK AND SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL IN OUR SCENARIO

6. FIRST CLINICAL APPLICATIONS

7. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS DURING THE ROBOT CONSTRUCTION

8. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS FOR SENSORIMOTOR COORDINATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Chapter 17 THE VENTRO-DORSAL STREAM: PARIETO-PREMOTOR NEURAL CIRCUITS AND THEIR ROLE IN PRIMATE COGNITION

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE DORSAL STREAMS

3. THE VENTRO-DORSAL STREAM: ACTION IN SPACE AND SPACE PERCEPTION

4. THE VENTRO-DORSAL STREAM: ACTION UNDERSTANDING

5. THE MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM FOR ACTIONS IN MONKEYS AND HUMANS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

6. THE MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM FOR ACTIONS AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF INTENTIONS

7. A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON ACTION AND PERCEPTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Chapter 18 MIND OVER MATTER? IMAGINED BODY MOVEMENTS AND THEIR NEURONAL CORRELATES

SENSORIMOTOR REPRESENTATIONS AND IMAGERY

MOTOR PROCESSES AND MENTAL ROTATION

SELF-MONITORING OF MOTOR INTENTIONS

IMAGERY AND MOTOR PERFORMANCE

IMAGINED ROTATIONS OF THE BODY

VIEWER BASED MENTAL ROTATION

IS VESTIBULAR INFORMATION INVOLVED IN MENTAL IMAGERY?

AN APPLIED EXAMPLE: ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY

FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Chapter 19 BOTTOM-UP EFFECTS OF SENSORY CONFLICT AND ADAPTATION ON MENTAL IMAGERY: SENSORIMOTOR GROUNDS FOR HIGH LEVEL COGNITION?

1. INTRODUCTION

2. REPRESENTATIONAL NEGLECT, A SPATIAL IMAGERY DEFICIT

3. THE BOTTOM-UP TRACK: A COGNITIVE DEFICIT ALLEVIATED BY PHYSIOLOGICAL STIMULATIONS

4. CONCLUSION

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Chapter 20 CORTICAL PROCESSING OF AUDITORY SPACE: PATHWAYS AND PLASTICITY

1. BRAINSTEM PROCESSING OF AUDITORY SPACE

2. SPATIAL SELECTIVITY IN PRIMARY AND NONPRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX

3. EARLY PARALLEL PROCESSING IN THE AUDITORY CORTEX

4. SPATIAL AND PATTERN SELECTIVITY IN THE LATERAL BELT

5. AUDITORY BELT PROJECTIONS TO PARIETAL AND PREFRONTAL CORTEX

6. HUMAN IMAGING STUDIES OF AUDITORY CORTICAL PROCESSING

7. DUAL STREAMS IN HUMAN AUDITORY CORTICAL PROCESSING

8. PLASTICITY OF SOUND LOCALIZATION IN THE EARLY BLIND

9. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Chapter 21 NETWORKS FOR ATTENTIONAL CONTROL AND SELECTION IN SPATIAL VISION

1. INTRODUCTION

2. SPECIALIZATIONS IN TOP-DOWN ATTENTIONAL CONTROL

3. CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

Acknowledgments

Index