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This study explores how emotions drive actions using neurocognitive theories. It details a process where emotional appraisal leads to motivated action, refined by predictive modeling for purposeful yet impulsive behavior.

Keywords:

action readiness appraisal emotion forward model incipient ideomotor capture

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Neuroscience
Psychology
Cognitive Science

Background:

Traditional views link emotion and action, but mechanisms remain unclear.
Neurocognitive theories offer insights into action control processes.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying emotional action.
To synthesize existing theories into a unified model of emotion-action interplay.

Main Methods:

Theoretical synthesis integrating Freudian perspectives with neurocognitive models of action control.
Analysis of appraisal, motive formation, action valuation, and forward modeling in emotional action.

Main Results:

Emotional action arises from event appraisal linked to personal concerns, creating motives.
Action selection involves pragmatic evaluation and ideomotor capture, refined by forward modeling of sensory consequences.
This process results in actions that are both impulsive and purposeful.

Conclusions:

A novel theoretical framework is presented for understanding emotion in action.
The proposed model highlights the interplay between appraisal, prediction, and action execution.
This mechanistic view provides a foundation for future empirical research on emotional action control.