1: The Mechanisms of Human action: Introduction and Background
Ezequiel Morsella
Part One Basic Principles, Systems, and Phenomena
2: Cognition and Action
Wolfgang Prinz, Gisa Aschersleben, and Iring Koch
3: The Inhibition of Unwanted Actions
Clayton E. Curtis and Mark D'Esposito
4: The Visual Control of Object Manipulation
David A. Westwood
5: The Two Horses of Behavior: Reflection and Impulse
Fritz Strack, Roland Deutsch, and Regina Krieglmeyer
Part Two The Activation, Selection and Expression of Action
6: Smart Moves: The Psychology of Everyday Perceptual-Motor
Acts
David A. Rosenbaum, Jonathan Vaughan, Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek,
Steven Jax, and Rajal G. Cohen
7: How the Mind Moves the Body - Lessons From Apraxia
Georg Goldenberg
8: Speech Errors and the Implicit Learning of Phonological
Sequences
Gary S. Dell, Jill A. Warker, and Christine Whalen
9: What Do We Prime? On Distinguishing Between Semantic Priming,
Procedural Priming, and Goal Priming
Jens Förster, Nira Liberman, and Ronald S. Friedman
Part Three Action and Mental Representation
10: The Prefrontal Cortex Stores Structured Event Complexes that
are the Representational Basis for Cognitively-Derived Actions
Jordan Grafman and Frank Krueger
11: Interactions Between Action and Visual Objects
Rob Ellis
12: The Movement of Eye and Hand as a Window Into Language and
Cognition
Michael Spivey, Daniel Richardson, and Rick Dale
13: Action Representation as the Bedrock of Social Cognition: A
Developmental Neuroscience Perspective
Jean Decety and Jessica A. Sommerville
Part Four Affect, Goals, and Motivation
14: Affect and Action Control
Deidre L. Reis and Jeremy R. Gray
15: Action, Affect, and Two-Mode Models of Functioning
Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier
16: From Goal-Activation to Action: How Does Preference and Use of
Knowledge Intervene?
Arthur B. Markman, C. Miguel Brendl, and Kyungil Kim
17: The Role of Goal-Systems in Self-Regulation
Arie W. Kruglanski and Catalina Kopetz
Part Five The Origins and Sources of Action
18: Acquisition, Representation, and Control of Action
Bernhard Hommel and Birgit Elsner
19: Flexibility in the Development of Action
Bernhard Hommel and Birgit Elsner
20: The Role of Memory
Gordon D. Logan
21: Automaticity in situ: The Nature of Habit in Daily Life
David T. Neal and Wendy Wood
22: Mimicry: Its Upiquity, Importance and Functionality
Tanya L. Chartrand and Amy N. Dalton
Part Six Control, Choice, and Volition
23: Free Willpower: A Limited Resource Theory of Volition, Choice,
and Self-Regulation
Roy F. Baumeister, Matthew T. Gaillot, and Dianne M. Tice
24: Decision Utility, Incentive Salience, and Cue-Triggered
'Wanting'
Kent C. Berridge and J. Wayne Aldridge
25: On the Neural Implementation of Optimal Decisions
Patrick Simen, Philip Holmes, and Jonathan D. Cohen
26: Non-Conscious Goal Pursuit and the Effortful Control of
Behavior
Ran R. Hassin, Henk Aarts, Baruch Eitam, Ruud Custers, and Tali
Kleiman
Part Seven Phenomenal and Metacognitive Components of Action
27: Elbow Grease: When Action Feels Like Work Jesse Preston and
Daniel M. Wegner
28: Consciousness as a Trouble Shooting Device? The Role of
Consciousness in Goal Pursuit
Karin C. A. Bongers and Ap Dijksterhuis
29: Living on the Edge: Shifting Between Nonconscious and Conscious
Goal Pursuit
eter M. Gollwitzer, Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm, and Gabriele
Oettingen
30: The Primary Function of Consciousness: Why Skeletal Muscles are
'Voluntary' Muscles
Ezequiel Morsella, Stephen C. Krieger, and John A. Bargh
Ezequiel Morsella, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Social
Cognitive Neuroscience at San Francisco State University and an
Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurology at the
University of California, San Francisco.
He conducted his doctoral research at Columbia University and his
postdoctoral training at Yale University. His theoretical and
experimental research on the mechanisms of human action has
appeared in journals such as Psychological Review and Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
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