Abstract
This chapter describes how we model the integration of on-line, action-oriented visual information (dorsal pathway) with knowledge about the target object and memories of previous grasping experiences and object characteristics (ventral pathway). Previous models of vision-based grasping have built so far mainly, when not exclusively, on monkey data. Recent neuropsychological and neuroimaging research has shed a new light on how visuomotor coordination is organized and performed in the human brain. Thanks to such research, a model of vision-based grasping which integrates knowledge coming from single-cell monkey studies with human data can be developed. The basic framework of the proposed model is outlined in this chapter. Final goal of the proposal is to mimic, in a robotic setup, the coordination between sensory, associative and motor cortex of the human brain in vision-based grasping actions.