Voluntary Action

Brains, Minds, and Sociality
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-852754-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 193 mm x 269 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maasen, Sabine

Prinz, Wolfgang

Roth, Gerhard

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Maasen, Sabine (Professor of Science Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland) / Prinz, Wolfgang (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Germany) / Roth, Gerhard (Professor of Zoology/Director of Brain Research Institute, University