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

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2013.

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Description xi, 450 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 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 GAunther 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 -- Bibliographical references -- Index.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Motivation (Psychology)
Cognitive psychology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Prinz, Wolfgang, 1942-
Beisert, Miriam, 1980-
Herwig, Arvid, 1979-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262018555 (hardcover alk. paper)
9780262312974 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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