… Preface to the Second Edition Twelve years have passed since we wrote the first edition
of The Visual Brain in Action. In the book, we put forward a model for an understanding of …

… as a basis for action, ignoring all the rest. Thus we ignore the sensations evoked in our skin
… Specifi cally, we have recorded the electrical ac tivity of nerve cells in the brain of the rhesus …

… aperture to the visual width of the targets and did so well within the range of … the notion
that DF’s spared visuomotor abilities are driven largely by visual feedforward processing of the …

… that some other quite independent visual signal—one that … the visual signals that give us
our experience of objects and events in the world are not the same ones that control our actions…

… central role in bridging the gap between neurobiological studies of the monkey's visual system
and the search to narrow down the brain mechanisms that mediate our visual awareness. …

… requiring space computation but also for space and action perception. At the end of the
chapter we will briefly discuss the relation between action and perception as it emerges from …

… the nature of visual experience. We propose that visual experience is the activity of exploring
the … broader capacities for action, thought, and (in humans) language use. More important, …

… the brain and reconcile them with what we already know about the dorsal and ventral streams
of visual … Based on the seminal observation of two distinct cortical streams originating from …

This book is an account of human visual brain development, covering both neuroscientific
theory and clinical applications. It reviews over twenty years of studies, many from the author's …

… evidence that the TVSH also holds for healthy human observers. In this study they investigated
how perception and action are affected by size contrast illusions (ie, the Ebbinghaus or …