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Neural substrates of visual spatial coding and visual feedback control for hand movements in allocentric and target-directed tasks (2011)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., & Goodale, M. (2011). Neural substrates of visual spatial coding and visual feedback control for hand movements in allocentric and target-directed tasks. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, Article 92. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00092

Neuropsychological evidence suggests that different brain areas may be involved in movements that are directed at visual targets (e.g., pointing or reaching), and movements that are based on allocentric visual information (e.g., drawing or copying).... Read More about Neural substrates of visual spatial coding and visual feedback control for hand movements in allocentric and target-directed tasks.

Neural correlates of natural human echolocation in early and late blind echolocation experts (2011)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., Arnott, S., & Goodale, M. (2011). Neural correlates of natural human echolocation in early and late blind echolocation experts. PLoS ONE, 6(5), Article e20162. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020162

Background: A small number of blind people are adept at echolocating silent objects simply by producing mouth clicks and listening to the returning echoes. Yet the neural architecture underlying this type of aid-free human echolocation has not been i... Read More about Neural correlates of natural human echolocation in early and late blind echolocation experts.

Toward an integrated approach to perception and action: conference report and future directions (2011)
Journal Article
Gordon, G., Kaplan, D., Lankow, B., Little, D., Sherwin, J., Suter, B., & Thaler, L. (2011). Toward an integrated approach to perception and action: conference report and future directions. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 5, Article 20. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2011.00020

This article was motivated by the conference entitled “Perception & Action – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Systems Theory,” which took place September 14–16, 2010 at the Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA. The goal of the conference was to brin... Read More about Toward an integrated approach to perception and action: conference report and future directions.

The role of online visual feedback for the control of target-directed and allocentric hand movements (2011)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., & Goodale, M. (2011). The role of online visual feedback for the control of target-directed and allocentric hand movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105(2), 846-859. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00743.2010

Studies that have investigated how sensory feedback about the moving hand is used to control hand movements have relied on paradigms such as pointing or reaching that require subjects to acquire target locations. In the context of these target-direct... Read More about The role of online visual feedback for the control of target-directed and allocentric hand movements.

Evidence from visuomotor adaptation for two partially independent visuomotor systems (2010)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., & Todd, J. (2010). Evidence from visuomotor adaptation for two partially independent visuomotor systems. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36(4), 924-935. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017603

Visual information can specify spatial layout with respect to the observer (egocentric) or with respect to an external frame of reference (allocentric). People can use both of these types of visual spatial information to guide their hands. The questi... Read More about Evidence from visuomotor adaptation for two partially independent visuomotor systems.

Beyond distance and direction: the brain represents target locations non-metrically (2010)
Journal Article
Thaler, L., & Goodale, M. (2010). Beyond distance and direction: the brain represents target locations non-metrically. Journal of Vision, 10(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1167/10.3.3

In their day-to-day activities human beings are constantly generating behavior, such as pointing, grasping or verbal reports, on the basis of visible target locations. The question arises how the brain represents target locations. One possibility is... Read More about Beyond distance and direction: the brain represents target locations non-metrically.