ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on interactive models linking perception to action, and the role of the posterior parietal cortex in dealing with different kinds of potential actions. It deals with time-perception, a function incorporating the estimation of the duration of perceptual events, as well as the control of the timing of movements. Visual illusions formed a popular subject in academic psychology of the late 20th century, probably because they provided the first evidence that the brain’s perception of the external world differed from the physical reality. Higher-order visual perception is an extremely complex process, implemented in a large-scale network encompassing posterior and temporal cortices. In associative memory, information from the dorsal and ventral streams of the visual system is compared with information residing in long-term memory representations. An important aspect of higher visual perception is the ability to recognize objects in space, despite their varying retinotopic image.
