Wolfgang Prinz
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262034326
- eISBN:
- 9780262333290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034326.003.0017
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, History of Neuroscience
This chapter argues that an action-oriented view of cognition is nice to have, but not enough. The study of cognition most certainly needs to be extended to include action. However, the study of ...
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This chapter argues that an action-oriented view of cognition is nice to have, but not enough. The study of cognition most certainly needs to be extended to include action. However, the study of action requires more than simply understanding its cognitive foundations. This chapter discusses two functional features of action that a cognitive approach fails to capture: top-down control and action alignment. Top-down control operates within individuals and requires a framework that addresses the formation of motives, goals, and intentions as precursors of action selection and execution. Action alignment operates between individuals, necessitating a framework that addresses the common representational basis of perception and production. To accommodate these features we need to proceed from including action in cognitive science to including cognition in action science.Less
This chapter argues that an action-oriented view of cognition is nice to have, but not enough. The study of cognition most certainly needs to be extended to include action. However, the study of action requires more than simply understanding its cognitive foundations. This chapter discusses two functional features of action that a cognitive approach fails to capture: top-down control and action alignment. Top-down control operates within individuals and requires a framework that addresses the formation of motives, goals, and intentions as precursors of action selection and execution. Action alignment operates between individuals, necessitating a framework that addresses the common representational basis of perception and production. To accommodate these features we need to proceed from including action in cognitive science to including cognition in action science.
Cecilia Heyes
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262018555
- eISBN:
- 9780262312974
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262018555.003.0012
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
This chapter focuses on exploring automatic or effortless imitation, as this phenomenon has emerged as the main basis of action science investigations. A specific focus on automatic imitation has ...
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This chapter focuses on exploring automatic or effortless imitation, as this phenomenon has emerged as the main basis of action science investigations. A specific focus on automatic imitation has made it possible to study the main mechanisms involved in imitation along with related cognitive processes, which solve the ”correspondence problem.” These processes help to solidify an idea of an action that will be converted to another similar action where the observer’s body parts move in a similar manner, imitating the model’s motor functions. The evidence related to automatic imitation is derived from investigations that are conducted using a particular type of stimulus-response compatibility technique where the stimulus includes images of the actions involved in the response set.Less
This chapter focuses on exploring automatic or effortless imitation, as this phenomenon has emerged as the main basis of action science investigations. A specific focus on automatic imitation has made it possible to study the main mechanisms involved in imitation along with related cognitive processes, which solve the ”correspondence problem.” These processes help to solidify an idea of an action that will be converted to another similar action where the observer’s body parts move in a similar manner, imitating the model’s motor functions. The evidence related to automatic imitation is derived from investigations that are conducted using a particular type of stimulus-response compatibility technique where the stimulus includes images of the actions involved in the response set.
Mihnea Moldoveanu
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804773041
- eISBN:
- 9780804777421
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804773041.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Behavioural Economics
This book presents readers with an exercise in modeling human ways of being—thinking, feeling, acting. It does not merely introduce models, but also attempts to teach modeling, and to produce, within ...
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This book presents readers with an exercise in modeling human ways of being—thinking, feeling, acting. It does not merely introduce models, but also attempts to teach modeling, and to produce, within the reader, the predispositions and attitudes of the modeler: a distance from the individual whose behavior is modeled, an engineering approach to the model-building process, a (self)-critical approach to the model testing and elaboration process, and a pedagogical and a therapeutic approach to enacting and communicating models. The author makes the process and the phenomenon of modeling transparent and explicit, and clarifies the reasons for which modeling human behavior has to be an interactive process between the modeler and the modeled. This perspective situates the book at the intersection of analytical and computational thinking about rationality, reasoning, choice and thinking, and the tradition of action science and action research.Less
This book presents readers with an exercise in modeling human ways of being—thinking, feeling, acting. It does not merely introduce models, but also attempts to teach modeling, and to produce, within the reader, the predispositions and attitudes of the modeler: a distance from the individual whose behavior is modeled, an engineering approach to the model-building process, a (self)-critical approach to the model testing and elaboration process, and a pedagogical and a therapeutic approach to enacting and communicating models. The author makes the process and the phenomenon of modeling transparent and explicit, and clarifies the reasons for which modeling human behavior has to be an interactive process between the modeler and the modeled. This perspective situates the book at the intersection of analytical and computational thinking about rationality, reasoning, choice and thinking, and the tradition of action science and action research.
