Overview
- The first compact reader giving a complete overview of human action control
- Of interest to students and researchers in every subfield of psychology, as well as sociologists, ergotherapists and neuroscientists
- Provides a theoretical framework for understanding the planning and control of human goal-directed actions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
Human Action Control is a must-have resource for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and doctorate students in cognitive psychology and related areas, such as the cognitive neurosciences, and developmental and social psychology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Stephen B.R.E. Brown studied developmental and cognitive psychology at the University of Amsterdam. After obtaining his Master’s degree there, he moved to Leiden University to obtain a Ph.D. under supervision of Professors Sander Nieuwenhuis and Bernhard Hommel. His dissertation focused on the locus coeruleus, a brainstem nucleus that provides the entire brain with the neuromodulator noradrenaline, which is released whenever we experience arousal. Currently, Dr. Brown works as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University, and studies heart rate variability as a predictor of psychosocial stress in collaboration with Professor Jos Brosschot. He is also employed as an instructor at the University of Amsterdam, where he coordinates and teaches a course on Cognition for interdisciplinary students.
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Dr. Dieter Nattkemper studied psychology at the University of Münster. His professional career started at the University of Osnabrück where he was engaged in investigating mechanisms of eye movement control in reading. In the 1980s he worked (with W. Prinz) at the University of Bielefeld on issues related to understanding how internal, cognitive models of the environment contribute to controlling human behaviour and how these supposed internal models are generated, consolidated, and modified in response to changes in our external world. He achieved his Ph.D. at the University of Bielefeld with studies elucidating the role of eye movements in tasks that require processes of continuous selection (continuous visual search). Thereafter, he joined the research group ‘Cognition and Action’ of the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research (headed by W. Prinz) where his research focused on questions relating to the mechanisms governing performance in serial reaction tasks. At the end of the past century he moved to Humboldt University Berlin where he studied (with M. Ziessler and P. Frensch) the mechanisms underlying human action planning. Dr. Nattkemper has co-authored several articles in international journals, chapters in readers and psychological textbooks, a German textbook on human action planning and control (with B. Hommel), and co-edited a special issue on human action control. Due to steadily increasing problems caused by multiple sclerosis he finished his professional career as an experimental psychologist and retired at the end of 2013.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Action Control
Book Subtitle: From Intentions to Movements
Authors: Bernhard Hommel, Stephen B.R.E. Brown, Dieter Nattkemper
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09244-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09243-0Published: 11 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79164-7Published: 19 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09244-7Published: 02 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology