Cognition and Motor Processes

1. Front Matter

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2. Motor Control and Action Planning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Cognitivism and Future Theories of Action: Some Basic Issues

      • George E. Stelmach, Barry G. Hughes

      Pages 3-18

   3. A Distributed Processing View of Human Motor Control

      • Richard W. Pew

      Pages 19-27

   4. The Apraxias, Purposeful Motor Behavior, and Left-Hemisphere Function

      • Robert B. Freeman Jr.

      Pages 29-50

   5. A Motor-Program Editor

      • David A. Rosenbaum, Edward Saltzman

      Pages 51-61

   6. Eye Movement Control During Reading: The Effect of Word Units

      • George W. McConkie, David Zola

      Pages 63-74

3. Motor Contributions to Perception and Cognition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Motor Theories of Cognitive Structure: A Historical Review

      • Eckart Scheerer

      Pages 77-98

   3. Context Effects and Efferent Factors in Perception and Cognition

      • Wayne L. Shebilske

      Pages 99-119

   4. Saccadic Eye Movements and Visual Stability: Preliminary Considerations Towards a Cognitive Approach

      • Peter Wolff

      Pages 121-137

   5. Scanning and the Distribution of Attention: The Current Status of Heron’s Sensory-Motor Theory

      • D. J. K. Mewhort

      Pages 139-148

   6. The Relationship Between Motor Processes and Cognition in Tactile Vision Substitution

      • Paul Bach-y-Rita

      Pages 149-160

4. Mediating Structures and Operations Between Cognition and Action

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Mechanisms of Voluntary Movement

      • H. H. Kornhuber

      Pages 163-173

   3. Evaluation: The Missing Link Between Cognition and Action

      • D. M. MacKay

      Pages 175-184

   4. Modes of Linkage Between Perception and Action

      • Wolfgang Prinz

      Pages 185-193

   5. The Contribution of Vision-Based Imagery to the Acquisition and Operation of a Transcription Skill

      • Daniel Gopher

      Pages 195-208

   6. Speech Production and Comprehension: One Lexicon or Two?

      • D. Alan Allport

      Pages 209-228

5. Attention, Cognition, and Skilled Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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The issue of the relationship between cognition and motor processes can be - and has been - raised at different levels of analysis. At the neurophysiological level it refers to the interactions between afferent and efferent information. At the neurological and neuropsychological level it relates to the mutual dependencies between the sensory and the motor part of the brain, or, more precisely, between sensory and motor functions of various parts of the brain. In psychology, the issue under debate concerns, at a molecular level, the relationship between percep­ tion and movement or, at a more molar level, the relations between cognition and action. For the title of this book we deliberately decided to combine two terms that are taken from two of these levels ,in order to emphasize both the multilevel structure of the issues involved and the multidis­ ciplinary nature of the following contributions. Although the term "cognition" has been tremendously misused in recent years (at least in psychology), it is still the only term available to serve as a convenient collective name for all sorts of cognitive processes and functions.

• Action
• Handlung
• Kognition
• Motor
• Motorik
• Wahrnehmung
• cognition
• psychology

• Abteilung für Experimentelle und Angewandte Psychologie, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld 1, Federal Republic of Germany

  Wolfgang Prinz

• Institute for Perception TNO, Soesterberg, The Netherlands

  Andries F. Sanders

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