Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170103189]Researchers: Philippe Chouinard (Chief Investigator) , Sheila Crewther (Chief Investigator) , Melvyn Goodale (Partner Investigator)
Brief description Determining the neural mechanisms of visual stimuli and motor responses. This project aims to determine how we select actions to visual cues rapidly, unconsciously and automatically. Learning associations between visual stimuli and motor responses is part of normal development and continues throughout life. Rapid deployment of these actions is often critical for safety yet we have limited knowledge of how the human brain does this. This project will use neuroimaging tools to characterise the spatial and temporal neural architecture underlying these processes and determine how the dorsal and ventral streams of visual processing, specialised for motor control and recognition respectively, interact in vision-based actions as these actions become learned.Outcomes will provide new frameworks for driving improvement in any domain in which goal-directed actions depend on the rapid processing of visual information, including human-machine interfaces for defence, economic development, education, health, science and technology.
Funding Amount $362,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170103189
- ARC : DP170103189