Attention and the control of action: An investigation of the effects of selection on population coding of hand and eye movement

The ecological approach to perception, particularly associated with Gibson [1], maintains that perception and action systems are closely linked and interactive. Perception cannot have evolved, as it were, for its own sake, but rather for its value in guiding the characteristic behaviours of particular organisms. This perspective predicts that perception-action couplings are not arbitrary, but that particular perceptual systems have evolved to be specially attuned or sensitive to particular types of information relevant for the triggering and control of particular responses, e.g., the fly-catching system in the frog [2]. Conversely actions can be produced to aid perception, a good example being the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) which stabilizes retinal input when the head is moving, by automatically causing compensatory eye movements in the opposite direction.

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