Director, The Brain and Mind Institute

Founding Director, NSERC CREATE Program for Computational Approaches to Sensorimotor Transformations for the Control of Actions

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Recent Publications:

• Thaler, L., Arnott, S.R., Goodale, M.A. (2011).  Neural correlates of natural human echolocation in early and late blind echolocation experts. PLoS One,  6(5):e20162.
• Cant, J.S., Goodale, M.A. (2011).  Scratching beneath the surface: new insights into the functional properties of the lateral occipital area and parahippocampal place area. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 8248-58.
• Rossit, S., Fraser, J.A., Teasell, R., Malhotra, P.A., Goodale, M.A. (2011).  Impaired delayed but preserved immediate grasping in a neglect patient with parieto-occipital lesions. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2498-504.  
• Gallivan, J.P., Chapman, C.S., Wood, D.K., Milne, J.L., Ansari, D., Culham, J.C., Goodale, M.A. (2011).  One to four, and nothing more: nonconscious parallel individuation of objects during action planning. Psychological Science, 22, 803-11.
• Striemer, C.L., Chouinard, P.A., Goodale, M.A. (2011).  Programs for action in superior parietal cortex: a triple-pulse TMS investigation. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2391-9.
• Strother, L., Mathuranath, P.S., Aldcroft, A., Lavell, C., Goodale, M.A., Vilis, T. (2011).  Face inversion reduces the persistence of global form and its neural correlates. PloS One, 6(4):e18705. 
• Thaler, L., Goodale, M.A. (2011). Reaction times for allocentric movements are 35 ms slower than reaction times for target-directed movements. Experimental Brain Res., 211, 313-28.
• Chapman, C.S., Gallivan, J.P., Culham, J.C. & Goodale, M.A. (2011). Mental blocks: fMRI reveals top-down modulation of early visual cortex when obstacles interfere with grasp planning. Neuropschologia, in print.
• Cate, A.D., Goodale, M.A. & Koehler, S. (2011). The role of apparent size in building-and object-specific regions of ventral visual cortex. Brain Research, 1388:109-22.
• Whitwell, R.L., Striemer, C.L., Nicolle, D.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2011). Grasping the non-conscious: Preserved grip scaling to unseen objects for immediate but not delayed grasping following a unilateral lesion to primary visual cortex. Vision Research, In print.

Funding:

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
• Canada Research Chair - Visual Neuroscience

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