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| ⚫ | '''Melvyn Goodale''', PhD, FRSC is a Canadian neuroscientist. He is Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at the [[University of Western Ontario]] where he holds the [[Canada Research Chair]] in Visual Neuroscience.<ref>[http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=323 Canada Research Chairs: Melvyn Goodale], retrieved 2012-07-22.</ref> He holds appointments in the Departments of Psychology, Physiology & Pharmacology, and Ophthalmology at Western. Goodale's research focuses on the neural substrates of visual perception and visuomotor control. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Goodale was born in [[Leigh-on-Sea]], Essex, England in 1943. He emigrated with his parents to [[Calgary]], Alberta, Canada in 1949. He received a BA in Psychology from the University of Alberta at Calgary in 1963 and an MA in Psychology from the [[University of Calgary]] in 1966. He left Calgary in 1966 for London Ontario where he completed a PhD in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in 1969. Goodale then returned to the UK where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1969 to 1971 in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the [[University of Oxford]], under the supervision of [[Lawrence Weiskrantz]]. Following his postdoctoral training at Oxford, Goodale accepted a position in the School of Psychology at the [[University of St. Andrews]] in Scotland. In 1977, he went back to Canada to take up a position at the University of Western Ontario, where he has remained ever since. |
[[Image:Photo of Melvyn Goodale taken in 2008.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mel Goodale]]Goodale was born in [[Leigh-on-Sea]], Essex, England in 1943. He emigrated with his parents to [[Calgary]], Alberta, Canada in 1949. He received a BA in Psychology from the University of Alberta at Calgary in 1963 and an MA in Psychology from the [[University of Calgary]] in 1966. He left Calgary in 1966 for London Ontario where he completed a PhD in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in 1969. Goodale then returned to the UK where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1969 to 1971 in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the [[University of Oxford]], under the supervision of [[Lawrence Weiskrantz]]. Following his postdoctoral training at Oxford, Goodale accepted a position in the School of Psychology at the [[University of St. Andrews]] in Scotland. In 1977, he went back to Canada to take up a position at the University of Western Ontario, where he has remained ever since. |
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Goodale is an honorary fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute at Durham University.<ref>[http://www.dur.ac.uk/wolfson.institute/fellowships/honoraryfellows/professormagoodale/ Honorary Fellow - Professor M A Goodale, FRSC], Durham University, retrieved 2012-07-22.</ref> In 1999, the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science gave him their Donald O. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award.<ref>[http://www.csbbcs.org/hebbrec99.html The 1999 Donald O. Hebb Award from the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences Presented to Dr. Melvyn Goodale], CSBBCS, retrieved 2012-07-22.</ref> |
Goodale is an honorary fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute at Durham University.<ref>[http://www.dur.ac.uk/wolfson.institute/fellowships/honoraryfellows/professormagoodale/ Honorary Fellow - Professor M A Goodale, FRSC], Durham University, retrieved 2012-07-22.</ref> In 1999, the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science gave him their Donald O. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award.<ref>[http://www.csbbcs.org/hebbrec99.html The 1999 Donald O. Hebb Award from the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences Presented to Dr. Melvyn Goodale], CSBBCS, retrieved 2012-07-22.</ref> |
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==Research== |
==Research== |
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Goodale was a pioneer in the study of the neural substrates of visuomotor control, first in animals<ref name=Goodale1975>{{cite journal |author=Goodale MA, Murison RCC |title=The effects of lesions of the superior colliculus on locomotor orientation and the orienting reflex in the rat |journal=Brain Res. |volume=88 |issue=2 |pages=243-61. |year=1975 |pmid=1148825 |doi=10.1016/0006-8993(75)90388-1}}</ref> and later in humans.<ref name=Goodale1985>{{cite journal |author=Fisk JD, Goodale MA |title=The organization of eye and limb movements during unrestricted reaching to targets in contralateral and ipsilateral visual space |journal=Exp. Brain Res. |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=159-78. |year=1975 |pmid=4043274 |doi=10.1007/BF00237028}}</ref> Goodale’s early work in the 1980s, in which he demonstrated that visual perception is functionally independent of the visual control of action,<ref name=Goodale1986>{{cite journal |author=Goodale MA, Pelisson D, Prablanc C |title=Large adjustments in visually guided reaching do not depend on vision of the hand or perception of target displacement |journal=Nature |volume=320 |issue=6064 |pages=748-50 |year=1986 |pmid=3703000 |doi=10.1038/320748a0}}</ref> laid the foundation for the ‘duplex’ account of high-level vision which he developed later, together with his long-time colleague, David Milner (originally based at the University of St. Andrews but now at [[Durham University]]). In a short paper, entitled "Separate visual pathways for perception and action", published in ''Trends in Neurosciences'' in 1992,<ref name=Goodale1992>{{cite journal |author=Goodale MA, Milner AD |title=Separate visual pathways for perception and action |journal=Trends Neurosci. |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=20–5 |year=1992 |pmid=1374953 |doi=10.1016/0166-2236(92)90344-8}}</ref> Goodale and Milner proposed that the distinction between vision-for-perception and vision-for-action could be mapped onto the two streams of visual projections arising from early visual areas in the primate cerebral cortex: the ventral stream which projects to inferotemporal cortex and the dorsal stream which projects to the posterior parietal cortex (see also [[Two-streams hypothesis]]). This account provides a convincing resolution to conflicting accounts of visual function that has characterized much of the work in the field for the last one hundred years. Over the last decade, Goodale has led much of neuroimaging and psychophysical research that has refined and extended the two-visual-systems proposal. These ideas have had an enormous influence in the life sciences and medicine. The two-visual-systems proposal is now part of almost every textbook in vision, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology. |
Goodale was a pioneer in the study of the neural substrates of visuomotor control, first in animals<ref name=Goodale1975>{{cite journal |author=Goodale MA, Murison RCC |title=The effects of lesions of the superior colliculus on locomotor orientation and the orienting reflex in the rat |journal=Brain Res. |volume=88 |issue=2 |pages=243-61. |year=1975 |pmid=1148825 |doi=10.1016/0006-8993(75)90388-1}}</ref> and later in humans.<ref name=Goodale1985>{{cite journal |author=Fisk JD, Goodale MA |title=The organization of eye and limb movements during unrestricted reaching to targets in contralateral and ipsilateral visual space |journal=Exp. Brain Res. |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=159-78. |year=1975 |pmid=4043274 |doi=10.1007/BF00237028}}</ref> Goodale’s early work in the 1980s, in which he demonstrated that visual perception is functionally independent of the visual control of action,<ref name=Goodale1986>{{cite journal |author=Goodale MA, Pelisson D, Prablanc C |title=Large adjustments in visually guided reaching do not depend on vision of the hand or perception of target displacement |journal=Nature |volume=320 |issue=6064 |pages=748-50 |year=1986 |pmid=3703000 |doi=10.1038/320748a0}}</ref> laid the foundation for the ‘duplex’ account of high-level vision which he developed later, together with his long-time colleague, David Milner (originally based at the University of St. Andrews but now at [[Durham University]]). In a short paper, entitled "Separate visual pathways for perception and action", published in ''Trends in Neurosciences'' in 1992,<ref name=Goodale1992>{{cite journal |author=Goodale MA, Milner AD |title=Separate visual pathways for perception and action |journal=Trends Neurosci. |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=20–5 |year=1992 |pmid=1374953 |doi=10.1016/0166-2236(92)90344-8}}</ref> Goodale and Milner proposed that the distinction between vision-for-perception and vision-for-action could be mapped onto the two streams of visual projections arising from early visual areas in the primate cerebral cortex: the ventral stream which projects to inferotemporal cortex and the dorsal stream which projects to the posterior parietal cortex (see also [[Two-streams hypothesis]]). This account provides a convincing resolution to conflicting accounts of visual function that has characterized much of the work in the field for the last one hundred years. Over the last decade, Goodale has led much of neuroimaging and psychophysical research that has refined and extended the two-visual-systems proposal. These ideas have had an enormous influence in the life sciences and medicine. The two-visual-systems proposal is now part of almost every textbook in vision, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology. |
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Melvyn Goodale, PhD, FRSC is a Canadian neuroscientist. He is Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience.[1] He holds appointments in the Departments of Psychology, Physiology & Pharmacology, and Ophthalmology at Western. Goodale's research focuses on the neural substrates of visual perception and visuomotor control.
Biography
Goodale was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England in 1943. He emigrated with his parents to Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1949. He received a BA in Psychology from the University of Alberta at Calgary in 1963 and an MA in Psychology from the University of Calgary in 1966. He left Calgary in 1966 for London Ontario where he completed a PhD in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in 1969. Goodale then returned to the UK where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1969 to 1971 in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Lawrence Weiskrantz. Following his postdoctoral training at Oxford, Goodale accepted a position in the School of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In 1977, he went back to Canada to take up a position at the University of Western Ontario, where he has remained ever since.
Goodale is an honorary fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute at Durham University.[2] In 1999, the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science gave him their Donald O. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award.[3] He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001.[4] In 2008 he won the Richard C. Tees Award for distinguished leadership from the CSBBCS.[5]
Research
Goodale was a pioneer in the study of the neural substrates of visuomotor control, first in animals[6] and later in humans.[7] Goodale’s early work in the 1980s, in which he demonstrated that visual perception is functionally independent of the visual control of action,[8] laid the foundation for the ‘duplex’ account of high-level vision which he developed later, together with his long-time colleague, David Milner (originally based at the University of St. Andrews but now at Durham University). In a short paper, entitled "Separate visual pathways for perception and action", published in Trends in Neurosciences in 1992,[9] Goodale and Milner proposed that the distinction between vision-for-perception and vision-for-action could be mapped onto the two streams of visual projections arising from early visual areas in the primate cerebral cortex: the ventral stream which projects to inferotemporal cortex and the dorsal stream which projects to the posterior parietal cortex (see also Two-streams hypothesis). This account provides a convincing resolution to conflicting accounts of visual function that has characterized much of the work in the field for the last one hundred years. Over the last decade, Goodale has led much of neuroimaging and psychophysical research that has refined and extended the two-visual-systems proposal. These ideas have had an enormous influence in the life sciences and medicine. The two-visual-systems proposal is now part of almost every textbook in vision, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology.
References
- ^ Canada Research Chairs: Melvyn Goodale, retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ^ Honorary Fellow - Professor M A Goodale, FRSC, Durham University, retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ^ The 1999 Donald O. Hebb Award from the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences Presented to Dr. Melvyn Goodale, CSBBCS, retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ^ Royal Society of Canada membership listing, retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ^ 2008 Richard C. Tees Distinguished Leadership Award Winner Dr. Melvyn Goodale, CSBBCS, retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ^ Goodale MA, Murison RCC (1975). "The effects of lesions of the superior colliculus on locomotor orientation and the orienting reflex in the rat". Brain Res. 88 (2): 243-61. doi:10.1016/0006-8993(75)90388-1. PMID 1148825.
- ^ Fisk JD, Goodale MA (1975). "The organization of eye and limb movements during unrestricted reaching to targets in contralateral and ipsilateral visual space". Exp. Brain Res. 60 (1): 159-78. doi:10.1007/BF00237028. PMID 4043274.
- ^ Goodale MA, Pelisson D, Prablanc C (1986). "Large adjustments in visually guided reaching do not depend on vision of the hand or perception of target displacement". Nature. 320 (6064): 748–50. doi:10.1038/320748a0. PMID 3703000.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Goodale MA, Milner AD (1992). "Separate visual pathways for perception and action". Trends Neurosci. 15 (1): 20–5. doi:10.1016/0166-2236(92)90344-8. PMID 1374953.
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