Oxford Handbook of Human Action

by Ezequiel Morsella (Editor), John A. Bargh (Editor), Peter M. Gollwitzer (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199718788
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/16/2008
Series:	Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1. The Mechanisms of Human action: Introduction and Background
Ezequiel Morsella Part One Basic Principles, Systems, and Phenomena2. Cognition and Action
Wolfgang Prinz, Gisa Aschersleben, and Iring Koch3. The Inhibition of Unwanted Actions
Clayton E. Curtis and Mark D'Esposito4. The Visual Control of Object Manipulation

David A. Westwood5. The Two Horses of Behavior: Reflection and Impulse

Fritz Strack, Roland Deutsch, and Regina Krieglmeyer Part Two The Activation, Selection and Expression of Action6. Smart Moves: The Psychology of Everyday Perceptual-Motor Acts

David A. Rosenbaum, Jonathan Vaughan, Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek, Steven Jax, and Rajal G. Cohen7. How the Mind Moves the Body - Lessons From Apraxia
Georg Goldenberg8. Speech Errors and the Implicit Learning of Phonological Sequences

Gary S. Dell, Jill A. Warker, and Christine Whalen9. 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 Representation10. The Prefrontal Cortex Stores Structured Event Complexes that are the Representational Basis for Cognitively-Derived Actions

Jordan Grafman and Frank Krueger11. Interactions Between Action and Visual Objects

Rob Ellis12. The Movement of Eye and Hand as a Window Into Language and Cognition
Michael Spivey, Daniel Richardson, and Rick Dale13. Action Representation as the Bedrock of Social Cognition: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective
Jean Decety and Jessica A. Sommerville Part Four Affect, Goals, and Motivation14. Affect and Action Control
Deidre L. Reis and Jeremy R. Gray15. Action, Affect, and Two-Mode Models of Functioning
Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier16. From Goal-Activation to Action: How Does Preference and Use of Knowledge Intervene?

Arthur B. Markman, C. Miguel Brendl, and Kyungil Kim17. The Role of Goal-Systems in Self-Regulation

Arie W. Kruglanski and Catalina Kopetz Part Five The Origins and Sources of Action18. Acquisition, Representation, and Control of Action
Bernhard Hommel and Birgit Elsner19. Flexibility in the Development of Action
Bernhard Hommel and Birgit Elsner20. The Role of Memory
Gordon D. Logan21. Automaticity in situ: The Nature of Habit in Daily Life

David T. Neal and Wendy Wood22. Mimicry: Its Upiquity, Importance and Functionality
Tanya L. Chartrand and Amy N. Dalton Part Six Control, Choice, and Volition23. Free Willpower: A Limited Resource Theory of Volition, Choice, and Self-Regulation
Roy F. Baumeister, Matthew T. Gaillot, and Dianne M. Tice24. Decision Utility, Incentive Salience, and Cue-Triggered 'Wanting'
Kent C. Berridge and J. Wayne Aldridge25. On the Neural Implementation of Optimal Decisions
Patrick Simen, Philip Holmes, and Jonathan D. Cohen26. 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 Action27. Elbow Grease: When Action Feels Like Work Jesse Preston and Daniel M. Wegner28. Consciousness as a Trouble Shooting Device? The Role of Consciousness in Goal Pursuit
Karin C. A. Bongers and Ap Dijksterhuis29. Living on the Edge: Shifting Between Nonconscious and Conscious Goal Pursuit eter M. Gollwitzer, Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm, and Gabriele Oettingen30. The Primary Function of Consciousness: Why Skeletal Muscles are 'Voluntary' Muscles
Ezequiel Morsella, Stephen C. Krieger, and John A. Bargh