Common Mechanisms in Perception and Action: Attention and Performance Volume XIX(Attention and Performance Series)

The latest volume in the critically acclaimed and highly influential Attention and Performance series focuses on a subject at the heart of psychological research into human performance - the interplay between perception and action. What are the mechanisms that translate the information we receive via our senses into physical actions? How do the mechanisms responsible for producing a response from a given stimulus operate? Recently, new perspectives have emerged, drawing on studies from neuroscience and neurophysiology. Within this volume, state of the art and cutting edge research from leading scientists in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience is presented describing the approaches being taken to understanding the mechanisms that allow us to negotiate and respond to the world around us.

Table of Contents:
Editor's Introduction 1: Common mechanisms in perception and action Association Lecture 2: Sequential effects of dimensional overlap: findings and issues Part 1: Space perception and spatially oriented action 3: Perception and action: what, how, when, and why 4: Several 'vision for action' systems: a guide to dissociating and integrating dorsal and ventral functions (tutorial) 5: Attention and visually guided behaviour in distinct systems 6: How the brain represents the body: insights from neurophysiology and psychology 7: Action planning affect spatial localization 8: The perception and representation of human locomotion Part 2: Timing in perception and action 9: Perspectives on the timing of events and actions 10: Movement timing: a tutorial 11: Timing mechanisms in sensorimotor synchronization 12: The embodiment of musical structure: effects of musical context on sensorimotor synchronization with complex timing patterns 13: Action, binding and awareness Part 3: Action perception and imitation 14: Processing mechanisms and neural structures involved in the recognition and production of actions 15: Action perception and imitation: a tutorial 16: Observing a human or a robotic hand grasping an object: differential motor priming effects 17: Action representation and the inferior parietal lobule 18: Coding of visible and hidden actions 19: The visual analysis of bodily motion Part 4: Content-specific interactions between perception and action 20: Content-specific interactions between perception and action 21: Motor competence in teh perception of dynamic events: a tutorial 22: Eliminating, magnifying, and reversing spatial compatibility effect with mixed location-relevant and irrelevant trials 23: Does stimulus-driven response activation underlie the Simon effect? 24: Activation and suppression in conflict tasks: empirical classification through distributional analyses 25: Response-evoked interference in visual encoding 26: Interaction between feature binding in perception and action Part 5: Coordination and integration in perception and action 27: Coordination and integration in perception and action 28: From perception to action: making the connection - a tutorial 29: The dimensional-action system: a distinct visual system 30: Selection-for-perception and selection-for-spatial-motor-action are coupled by visual attention: a review of recent findings and new evidence from stimulus-driven saccade control 31: Response features in the coordination of perception and action 32: Effect anticipation in action planning 33: The representational nature of sequence learning: evidence for goal-based codes

Review :
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