This text examines the concept of voluntary action, taking into account findings in neuroscience that the brain activation required to perform the action can actually precede the brain activation representing our conscious desire to perform that action.
We all know what a voluntary action is - we all think we know when an action is voluntary, and when it is not. First, there has to be some wish or goal, then an action designed to fulfil that wish or attain that goal. This standard view of voluntary actio
Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality; SECTION I: BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND CONTROL: PSYCHOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION; 1. How do we know about our own actions?; 2. Acquisition and control of voluntary action; 3. Voluntary action and cognit
We all know what a voluntary action is - we all think we know when an action is voluntary, and when it is not. First, there has to be some wish or goal, then an action designed to fulfil that wish or attain that goal. This standard view of voluntary actio
Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality; SECTION I: BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND CONTROL: PSYCHOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION; 1. How do we know about our own actions?; 2. Acquisition and control of voluntary action; 3. Voluntary action and cognit
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780198527541
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-19-852754-1
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.05.2003
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2003
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 664 g
- Seiten: 392
- Format (B x H x T): 193 x 269 x 17 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt