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Planning and representing intentional action.

Bernhard Hommel1

  • 1Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, NL-2333 XZ Leiden. hommel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Thescientificworldjournal
|July 9, 2003
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Human action planning involves anticipating goal effects, learned through movement-outcome contingencies from infancy. This forms perception-action networks, balancing intentions with environmental factors for action control.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Motor Control

Background:

  • Human action planning is central to intentional behavior.
  • Understanding the cognitive representation of actions is crucial for explaining goal-directed movements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent approaches to human action planning.
  • To explore the cognitive representation of intentional actions.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on action planning and cognitive representations.
  • Analysis of evidence for perception-action networks and contingency learning.

Main Results:

  • Action planning is based on anticipated action effects, learned via movement-outcome contingencies.

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  • Distributed perception-action networks support both perception and action production.
  • Action plans specify general features, with fine-tuning via online sensory-motor processing.

    • Conclusions:

    • Intentional action planning relies on learned associations between movements and their perceptual outcomes.
    • Action control is a dynamic balance between internal intentions and external environmental demands.