Gaze audits food items for bite points during human withdraw-to-eat movements
Ian Q Whishaw,
Jessica R. Kuntz,
Hardeep Ryait
et al.
Abstract:Food handling and eating are central to the skill of primate hand movements, and their analysis can provide insights into the evolutionary origins of hand use and its generalization to other behaviors, such as tool use. Vision contributes differently to the reach, grasp, and withdraw-to-eat components of hand use when eating, suggesting that these component movements are controlled by different visuomotor networks with distinct evolutionary histories. This study examines the role of gaze in mediating the withd… Show more
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