Taking action : cognitive neuroscience perspectives on intentional acts

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Label

Taking action : cognitive neuroscience perspectives on intentional acts

Title remainder

cognitive neuroscience perspectives on intentional acts

Statement of responsibility

edited by Scott H. Johnson-Frey

Contributor

• Johnson-Frey, Scott H

Subject

• Brain -- physiology
• Cognitie
• Cognition -- physiology
• Cognitive Science -- methods
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Electronic books
• Hersenen
• Intenties
• Intention
• Intention
• Motor Activity -- physiology
• NEUROSCIENCE/General
• Neuropsychology -- methods
• Neurowetenschappen
• PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology
• Perceptueel-motorische processen
• SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Recent cognitive neuroscientific research that crosses traditional conceptual boundaries among perceptual, cognitive, and motor functions in an effort to understand intentional acts. Traditionally, neurologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists have viewed brain functions as grossly divisible into three separable components, each responsible for either perceptual, cognitive, or motor systems. The artificial boundaries of this simplification have impeded progress in understanding many phenomena, particularly intentional actions, which involve complex interactions among the three systems. This book presents a diverse range of work on action by cognitive neuroscientists who are thinking across the traditional boundaries. The topics discussed include catching moving targets, the use of tools, the acquisition of new actions, feedforward and feedback mechanisms, the flexible sequencing of individual movements, the coordination of multiple limbs, and the control of actions compromised by disease. The book also presents recent work on relatively unexplored yet fundamental issues such as how the brain formulates intentions to act and how it expresses ideas through manual gestures

Member of

• A Bradford Book Ser

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

153

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

QP360.5

LC item number

.T35 2003eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 2003 I-970
• WL 103.5

NLM item number

T136 2003

Series statement

A Bradford Book Ser