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In the last decade, there has been a tremendous surge of research on the mechanisms of human action. This volume brings together this new knowledge in a single, concise source, covering most if not all of the basic questions regarding human action: What are the mechanisms by which action plans are acquired (learned), mentally represented, activated, selected, and expressed? The chapters provide up-to-date summaries of the published research on this question, with an emphasis on underlying mechanisms. This 'bible' of action research brings together the current thinking of eminent researchers in the domains of motor control, behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, biology, as well as cognitive, developmental, social, and motivational psychology. It represents a determined multidisciplinary effort, spanning across various areas of science as well as national boundaries.

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Author:   Ezequiel Morsella (Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Yale University, USA) ,  John A. Bargh (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Yale University, USA) ,  Peter M. Gollwitzer (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, New York University, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 25.70cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   1.338kg
ISBN:  

9780195309980

ISBN 10:   0195309987
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   06 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: The Mechanisms of Human action: Introduction and Background Ezequiel Morsella Part One Basic Principles, Systems, and Phenomena 2: Cognition and Action Wolfgang Prinz, Gisa Aschersleben, and Iring Koch 3: The Inhibition of Unwanted Actions Clayton E. Curtis and Mark D'Esposito 4: The Visual Control of Object Manipulation David A. Westwood 5: The Two Horses of Behavior: Reflection and Impulse Fritz Strack, Roland Deutsch, and Regina Krieglmeyer Part Two The Activation, Selection and Expression of Action 6: Smart Moves: The Psychology of Everyday Perceptual-Motor Acts David A. Rosenbaum, Jonathan Vaughan, Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek, Steven Jax, and Rajal G. Cohen 7: How the Mind Moves the Body - Lessons From Apraxia Georg Goldenberg 8: Speech Errors and the Implicit Learning of Phonological Sequences Gary S. Dell, Jill A. Warker, and Christine Whalen 9: What Do We Prime? On Distinguishing Between Semantic Priming, Procedural Priming, and Goal Priming Jens Förster, Nira Liberman, and Ronald S. Friedman Part Three Action and Mental Representation 10: The Prefrontal Cortex Stores Structured Event Complexes that are the Representational Basis for Cognitively-Derived Actions Jordan Grafman and Frank Krueger 11: Interactions Between Action and Visual Objects Rob Ellis 12: The Movement of Eye and Hand as a Window Into Language and Cognition Michael Spivey, Daniel Richardson, and Rick Dale 13: Action Representation as the Bedrock of Social Cognition: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective Jean Decety and Jessica A. Sommerville Part Four Affect, Goals, and Motivation 14: Affect and Action Control Deidre L. Reis and Jeremy R. Gray 15: Action, Affect, and Two-Mode Models of Functioning Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier 16: From Goal-Activation to Action: How Does Preference and Use of Knowledge Intervene? Arthur B. Markman, C. Miguel Brendl, and Kyungil Kim 17: The Role of Goal-Systems in Self-Regulation Arie W. Kruglanski and Catalina Kopetz Part Five The Origins and Sources of Action 18: Acquisition, Representation, and Control of Action Bernhard Hommel and Birgit Elsner 19: Flexibility in the Development of Action Bernhard Hommel and Birgit Elsner 20: The Role of Memory Gordon D. Logan 21: Automaticity in situ: The Nature of Habit in Daily Life David T. Neal and Wendy Wood 22: Mimicry: Its Upiquity, Importance and Functionality Tanya L. Chartrand and Amy N. Dalton Part Six Control, Choice, and Volition 23: Free Willpower: A Limited Resource Theory of Volition, Choice, and Self-Regulation Roy F. Baumeister, Matthew T. Gaillot, and Dianne M. Tice 24: Decision Utility, Incentive Salience, and Cue-Triggered 'Wanting' Kent C. Berridge and J. Wayne Aldridge 25: On the Neural Implementation of Optimal Decisions Patrick Simen, Philip Holmes, and Jonathan D. Cohen 26: Non-Conscious Goal Pursuit and the Effortful Control of Behavior Ran R. Hassin, Henk Aarts, Baruch Eitam, Ruud Custers, and Tali Kleiman Part Seven Phenomenal and Metacognitive Components of Action 27: Elbow Grease: When Action Feels Like Work Jesse Preston and Daniel M. Wegner 28: Consciousness as a Trouble Shooting Device? The Role of Consciousness in Goal Pursuit Karin C. A. Bongers and Ap Dijksterhuis 29: Living on the Edge: Shifting Between Nonconscious and Conscious Goal Pursuit eter M. Gollwitzer, Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm, and Gabriele Oettingen 30: The Primary Function of Consciousness: Why Skeletal Muscles are 'Voluntary' Muscles Ezequiel Morsella, Stephen C. Krieger, and John A. Bargh

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Ezequiel Morsella, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Social Cognitive Neuroscience at San Francisco State University and an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He conducted his doctoral research at Columbia University and his postdoctoral training at Yale University. His theoretical and experimental research on the mechanisms of human action has appeared in journals such as Psychological Review and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

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