Action Science : Foundations of an Emerging Discipline.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Action Science Emerging: Introduction and Leitmotifs -- Part 1: Control and Learning -- 2 Tool Use in Action: The Mastery of Complex Visuomotor Transformations -- 3 Implicit and Explicit Processes in Motor Learning -- 4 Cognitive Foundations of Action Planning and Control -- 5 Ideomotor Action Control: On the Perceptual Grounding of Voluntary Actions and Agents -- Part 2: Ecological Approaches -- 6 Ecological Perspective on Perception-Action: What Kind of Science Does It Entail? -- 7 Perception Viewed as a Phenotypic Expression -- Part 3: Neurocognitive Mechanisms -- 8 Understanding Action from the Inside -- 9 Beyond Serial Stages for Attentional Selection: The Critical Role of Action -- Part 4: Development -- 10 Action in Infancy: A Foundation for Cognitive Development -- 11 Developmental Perspectives on Action Science: Lessons from Infant Imitation and Cognitive Neuroscience -- Part 5: Social Actions -- 12 Imitation: Associative and Context Dependent -- 13 Joint Action: From Perception-Action Links to Shared Representations -- Part 6: Cognition and Volition -- 14 Premotor or Ideomotor: How Does the Experience of Action Come About? -- 15 Grounding the Human Conceptual System in Perception, Action, and Internal States -- 16 Volition in Action: Intentions, Control Dilemmas, and the Dynamic Regulation of Cognitive Control -- Index -- Insert.

An overview of today's diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to action and the relationship of action and cognition.

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