Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0064444

Zusammenfassung

We do it hundreds of times a day, when pressing a button, or grabbing a cup of tea: we see objects and reach for them with our arms and hands. Visually guided reaching is a central feature of human life, and great resources have been dedicated to dissecting the neural basis of this ability - not least because this understanding is instrumental to the development of prosthetics, as well as multitudes of other technical applications. However, executing this seemingly simple behaviour is an impressive feat by our nervous system and dissecting the mechanistic basis of visually guided reach...