Cognition and Motor Processes

1. Attention, Cognition, and Skilled Performance

   1. S-Oh-R: Oh Stages! Oh Resources!

      • Daniel Gopher, Andries F. Sanders

      Pages 231-253

   2. Automatic Processing: A Review of Recent Findings and a Plea for an Old Theory

      • Odmar Neumann

      Pages 255-293

   3. Motor Learning as a Process of Structural Constriction and Displacement

      • Herbert Heuer

      Pages 295-305

2. Interactions Between Cognition and Action in Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307

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   2. Cognition and Action in Development: A Tutorial Discussion

      • Herbert L. Pick

      Pages 309-325

   3. Biodynamic Structures, Cognitive Correlates of Motive Sets and the Development of Motives in Infants

      • Colwyn Trevarthen

      Pages 327-350

   4. Discontinuity in the Development of Motor Control in Children

      • L. Hay

      Pages 351-360

3. Back Matter

   Pages 361-378

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The issue of the relationship between cognition and motor processes can be - and has been - raised at different levels of analysis. At the neurophysiological level it refers to the interactions between afferent and efferent information. At the neurological and neuropsychological level it relates to the mutual dependencies between the sensory and the motor part of the brain, or, more precisely, between sensory and motor functions of various parts of the brain. In psychology, the issue under debate concerns, at a molecular level, the relationship between percep­ tion and movement or, at a more molar level, the relations between cognition and action. For the title of this book we deliberately decided to combine two terms that are taken from two of these levels ,in order to emphasize both the multilevel structure of the issues involved and the multidis­ ciplinary nature of the following contributions. Although the term "cognition" has been tremendously misused in recent years (at least in psychology), it is still the only term available to serve as a convenient collective name for all sorts of cognitive processes and functions.

• Action
• Handlung
• Kognition
• Motor
• Motorik
• Wahrnehmung
• cognition
• psychology

• Abteilung für Experimentelle und Angewandte Psychologie, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld 1, Federal Republic of Germany

  Wolfgang Prinz

• Institute for Perception TNO, Soesterberg, The Netherlands

  Andries F. Sanders

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