title: Reply to commentaries.
abstract: In our review, we argued that the ubiquity and extent of inter-stream interactions suggests that the ventral and dorsal visual streams are not functionally independent processing pathways. Most commentaries agreed with our conclusions. However, the notion that the specializations of the two streams are relative, not absolute, was criticised. We address this and other challenges. We conclude that, while the perception-action model works well as a high-level description of the functional organization of the visual cortex, it does not account for the complex interplay between perception and sensorimotor control revealed by a finer-grain analysis.
authors.affiliation: a Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Stockton on Tees , UK.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schenk
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: McIntosh