Action science : foundations of an emerging discipline

Action science : foundations of an emerging discipline / edited by Wolfgang Prinz, Miriam Beisert, and Arvid Herwig.

"An overview of today's diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to action and the relationship of action and cognition."--Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Prinz, Wolfgang, 1942-, Beisert, Miriam, 1980-, Herwig, Arvid, 1979-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2013.
©2013
Subjects:
Motivation (Psychology)
Cognitive psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
Cognitive psychology
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Table of Contents:
  • Action science emerging : introduction and leitmotifs / Arvid Herwig, Miriam Beisert, and Wolfgang Prinz
  • Control and learning
  • Tool use in action : the mastery of complex visuo-motor transformations / Herbert Heuer and Sandra Salzenbrack
  • Implicit and explicit processes in motor learning / Jordan A. Taylor and Richard B. Ivry
  • Cognitive foundations of action planning and control / David A. Rosenbaum
  • Ideomotor action control : on the perceptual grounding of voluntary actions and agents / Bernhard Hommel
  • Ecological approaches
  • Ecological perspective on perception-action : what kind of science does it entail? / Michael T. Turvey
  • Perception viewed as a phenotypic expression / Dennis R. Proffitt and Sally A. Linkenauger
  • Neurocognitive mechanisms
  • Understanding action from the inside / Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia
  • Beyond serial stages for attentional selection : the critical role of
  • Action / Glyn W. Humphreys
  • Development
  • Action in infancy : a foundation for cognitive development / Claes von Hofsten
  • Developmental perspectives on action science : lessons from infant imitation and cognitive neuroscience / Andrew N. Meltzoff, Rebecca A. Williamson, and Peter J. Marshall
  • Social actions
  • Imitation : associative and context-dependent / Cecilia Heyes
  • Joint action : from perception-action links to shared representations / Janeen D. Loehr, Natalie Sebanz, and Günther Knoblich
  • Cognition and volition
  • Premotor or ideomotor : how does the experience of action come about? / Valerian Chambon and Patrick Haggard
  • Grounding the human conceptual system in perception, action, and internal states / Markus Kiefer and Lawrence W. Barsalou
  • Volition in action : intentions, control dilemmas, and the dynamic regulation of cognitive control / Thomas Goschke.

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