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The Visuomotor Neuroscience Lab, York University, TorontoAffiliated with:
- Centre for Vision Research
- Canadian Action and Perception Network,
- York Neuroscience Graduate Diploma Program,
- NSERC CREATE Program in Sensorimotor Computation,
- Departments of Psychology,
Biology, and Kinesiology & Health Sciences.
It is sometimes said that the biological purpose of the brain is to generate behaviour. On the other hand, about half of the cerebral cortex is devoted to vision-related functions. It follows that the neural processes that transform vision into commands for behaviour are central to brain function. It also follows that studying these visual-motor processes is essential for understanding what goes wrong in neurology and neuropsychology patients. We are particularly interested in the spatial aspects of visual-motor control, i.e., how the brain represents visual space and then transforms this into the patterns of muscular contraction required for accurate movements in 3-D space.
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