Bernhard Hommel
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262018555
- eISBN:
- 9780262312974
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262018555.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
This chapter focuses on explaining the main assumptions of the Theory of Event Coding, which is given such prominence because it is the most significant ideomotor approach. The chapter emphasizes the ...
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This chapter focuses on explaining the main assumptions of the Theory of Event Coding, which is given such prominence because it is the most significant ideomotor approach. The chapter emphasizes the most significant theoretical issues that need to be addressed to verify the approach, examining whether agents acquire action–effect relationships as suggested by the theory and whether these agents are able to predict the perceptual effects as claimed in the theory. It also examines whether these predictions have any control over the action and which aspects of actions are controlled by these predictions, along with the implications of theory and related processes for representing the agent’s self.Less
This chapter focuses on explaining the main assumptions of the Theory of Event Coding, which is given such prominence because it is the most significant ideomotor approach. The chapter emphasizes the most significant theoretical issues that need to be addressed to verify the approach, examining whether agents acquire action–effect relationships as suggested by the theory and whether these agents are able to predict the perceptual effects as claimed in the theory. It also examines whether these predictions have any control over the action and which aspects of actions are controlled by these predictions, along with the implications of theory and related processes for representing the agent’s self.
