 Mel Goodale
Canada Research Professor in Visual Neuroscience
Melvyn A. Goodale holds the Canada
Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience at the University
of Western Ontario (Canada), where he is Director
of the Centre for Brain and Mind. He is best known
for his work on the functional organization of the
visual pathways in the cerebral cortex, and was a pioneer
in the study of visuomotor control in neurological
patients. Dr. Goodale's recent book with David Milner, ‘Sight
Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious
Vision' (Oxford University Press 2004), provides compelling
arguments that the brain mechanisms underlying our
conscious visual experience of the world are quite
separate from those involved in the visual control
of skilled actions. These ideas not only have implications
for our understanding visual deficits in neurological
patients, but also offer some new directions for the
design of robots and artificial visual systems.
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