Prof. Melvyn A. Goodale
Fellow
Current Employer
Western University
Election Year
2001
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Medical Sciences
Department
Department of Psychology
Keywords
Vision, visuomotor control, perception + action, neuropsychology
Melvyn Goodale is a world leader in the study of the neural substrates of high-level vision and visuomotor control. He is best known for his pioneering work showing that the visual processes mediating experiential perception are functionally distinct from those mediating the control of action. This distinction is now a major theoretical framework for understanding the human visual system.