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Professor Bieri has no story of his own to tell about perception and action. Nor do I. What is more, I do not even have an axe to grind. Having been raised in the information-processing approach myself, I saw nothing objectionable in its adoption by some of the contributors to this book. But now that Bieri has alerted us to its dangers and insufficiencies, I believe that a few words are in order, not in defense of the overall approach, but on some specific points raised by my co-commentator.
Prepartion of this chapter was helped by a fellowship from the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk.
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Scheerer, E. (1990). Relations Between Perception and Action: Unity in Diversity. In: Neumann, O., Prinz, W. (eds) Relationships Between Perception and Action. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75348-0_14
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