Goodale, M.A., Westwood, D.A., & Milner, A.D. (in press).  Two distinct modes of control for object-directed action.  Progress in Brain Research.

Heath, M., Almeida, Q.J., Roy, E.A., Black, S.E., & Westwood, D. (in press). Selective dysfunction of tool-use: a failure to integrate somatosensation andaction.  Neurocase.

Heath, M., & Westwood, D.A. (in press).  Can a stored visual representation be used for on-line control in memory-guided reaching?  Evidence from a variable spatial mapping paradigm.  Motor Control.  

Heath, M., Westwood, D.A., Roy, E.A., & Young, R. (2002).  Manual asymmetries in tool-use: Implications for apraxia.  Laterality, 7, 131-143.

Westwood, D.A., Danckert, J., Servos, P., & Goodale, M.A. (2002).  Grasping 2D images and 3D objects in visual form agnosia.  Experimental Brain Research, 144, 262-267.

Heath, M., Roy, E.A., Black, S.E., & Westwood, D. (2001).  Intransitive limb gestures and apraxia following unilateral stroke.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 23, 628-642.

Westwood, D.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2001).  Perception and action planning: getting it together.  Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 907-908.  Open peer commentary.

Westwood, D.A., Heath, M., & Roy, E.A. (2001).  The accuracy of reaching movements in brief delay conditions.  Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 304-310.

Westwood, D.A., McEachern, T., & Roy, E.A. (2001).  Delayed grasping of a Müller-Lyer figure.  Experimental Brain Research, 141, 166-173.

Roy, E.A., Heath, M., Westwood, D., Black, S.E., Schweizer, T., Dixon, M.J., Barbour, K., & Kalbfleisch, L. (2000).  Task demands and limb apraxia in stroke.  Brain and Cognition, 44, 253-279.

Westwood, D.A., Chapman, C.D., & Roy, E.A. (2000).  Pantomimed actions may be

controlled by the ventral visual stream.  Experimental Brain Research, 130, 545-548.

Westwood, D.A., Dubrowski, A., Carnahan, H., & Roy, E.A. (2000).  The effect of illusory size on force production when grasping objects.  Experimental Brain Research, 135, 535-545.

Westwood, D.A., Heath, M., & Roy, E.A. (2000).  The effect of a pictorial illusion on closed-loop and open-loop prehension.  Experimental Brain Research, 134, 456-463.


Selected Recent Presentations

Best, K., Winter, T.J., & Westwood, D.A. (2003).  Predetermined movements pose challenge to Hick’s Law.  Meeting at the Crossroads: Graduate Research in Health, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Cant, J., Westwood, D.A., Goodale, M.A. (2003).  Visuomotor priming or not? Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.

Kroliczak, G., Westwood, D.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2003).  Semantically-driven expectations and the control of reaching and grasping .  Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, USA.

Thompson, A.A., & Westwood, D.A. (2003).  The effect of visual illusions on monocular and binocular grasping.  Meeting at the Crossroads: Graduate Research in Health, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Westwood, D.A., & Danckert, J. (2003).  Eye movements are not necessary for fast manual adjustments to a perturbed visual target.  Meeting at the Crossroads: Graduate Research in Health, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Heath, M., & Westwood, D.A. (2002).  Visuomotor transitions and on-line control of memory-dependent reaches.  Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

McEachern, T., Rohr, L.E., Roy, E.A., & Westwood, D.A. (2002).  Direction and amplitude effects on manual aiming accuracy following brief response delays. 

Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sports Psychology, Vancouver,

BC, Canada.

Westwood, D.A.  (2002).  Grasping after a delay: implications for the two-streams view of action and perception.  Neural Control of Movement, Naples, FL, USA.

Westwood, D.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2002).  Grasping remembered objects: pinpointing the transition between on-line and off-line visuomotor control modes.  Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.

Westwood, D.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2002).  A haptic size-contrast illusion affects conscious size perception but not grasping.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Whitney, D., Westwood, D. A., & Goodale, M. A. (2002a). The influence of distant motion signals on fast reaching movements to a stationary object. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, USA.

Whitney, D., Westwood, D. A., & Goodale, M. A. (2002b). The influence of motion on position: From action to perception. Visual Localization in Space-Time, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. Conference organized by Romi Nijhawan.

Whitney, D., Westwood, D. A., & Goodale, M. A. (2002c). Shifts in fast reaching movements due to motion recover after a delay.  European Conference on Visual Perception, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Whitney, D., Westwood, D. A., & Goodale, M. A. (2002d). Dissociating the influence of motion on perception and action.  Leverhulme Interchange Meeting, Oxford University, Oxford, England. Conference organized by David Milner.

Binsted, G., Heath, M., Westwood, D.A., & Fink, P.W. (2001).  Perspectives on inferring movement organization from behaviour.  Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 23, S2.

Ferber, S., Westwood, D.A., Yang, H.T., Goodale, M.A., & Vilis, T. (2001).  Integrating object-based representations into motor planning.  Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA.

Heath, M., Roy, E.A., & Westwood, D.A. (2001).  Cooperative interaction in limb praxis.  Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 23, S3.

Heath, M., Westwood, D.A., Binsted, G., & Poulin, G. (2001).  Reaching movements to remembered targets: case analyses of systematic and variable errors.  Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sports Psychology, Montreal, PQ, Canada.

Heath, M., Westwood, D.A., Kalbfleisch, L., McEachern, T., & Roy, E.A. (2001).  Moving to remembered targets under variable spatial mapping.  Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 23, S79.

Westwood, D.A. (2001).  Motor control: from behaviour to brain and back.  Invited Oral presentation.  Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, Urbana-Champain, IL, USA.

Westwood, D.A. (2001).  Visual illusions and action: implications for motor control.  Invited Oral presentation.  School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Westwood, D.A. (2001).  Human action: perspectives from cognitive neuroscience.  Invited Oral presentation.  Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada.

Westwood, D.A., Heath, M., McEachern, T., & Roy, E.A. (2001).  The accuracy of manual-aiming movements to remembered targets (0-2000 ms delays).  Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 23, S96.

Westwood, D.A., Heath, M., & Roy, E.A. (2001).  Grasping visible versus remembered objects: behavioural evidence for distinct modes of control. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 23, S2.

Westwood, D.A., & Roy, E.A. (2001).  Strategic factors modulate the sensitivity of grasping to illusory object size.  Poster presentation.  Progress in Motor Control III, Montreal, PQ, Canada.