Action science foundations of an emerging discipline /
edited by Wolfgang Prinz, Miriam Beisert, and Arvid Herwig.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xi, 450 pages, 5. pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Action science emerging : introduction and leitmotifs / Control and learning -- Tool use in action : the mastery of complex visuo-motor transformations / Implicit and explicit processes in motor learning / Cognitive foundations of action planning and control / Ideomotor action control : on the perceptual grounding of voluntary actions and agents / Ecological approaches -- Ecological perspective on perception-action : what kind of science does it entail? / Perception viewed as a phenotypic expression / Neurocognitive mechanisms -- Understanding action from the inside / Beyond serial stages for attentional selection : the critical role of -- Action / Development -- Action in infancy : a foundation for cognitive development / Developmental perspectives on action science : lessons from infant imitation and cognitive neuroscience / Social actions -- Imitation : associative and context-dependent / Joint action : from perception-action links to shared representations / Cognition and volition -- Premotor or ideomotor : how does the experience of action come about? / Grounding the human conceptual system in perception, action, and internal states / Volition in action : intentions, control dilemmas, and the dynamic regulation of cognitive control / Arvid Herwig, Miriam Beisert, and Wolfgang Prinz -- Herbert Heuer and Sandra Salzenbrack -- Jordan A. Taylor and Richard B. Ivry -- David A. Rosenbaum -- Bernhard Hommel -- Michael T. Turvey -- Dennis R. Proffitt and Sally A. Linkenauger -- Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia -- Glyn W. Humphreys -- Claes von Hofsten -- Andrew N. Meltzoff, Rebecca A. Williamson, and Peter J. Marshall -- Cecilia Heyes -- Janeen D. Loehr, Natalie Sebanz, and Günther Knoblich -- Valerian Chambon and Patrick Haggard -- Markus Kiefer and Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Thomas Goschke.
"An overview of today's diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to action and the relationship of action and cognition."--Provided by publisher.