Consciousness and Action Control

• Main Author: Ezequiel Morsella (auth)
• Other Authors: T. Andrew Poehlman (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Consciousness; action; unconscious processing; voluntary action; perception-and-action
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The basic nuts and bolts underlying human behavior remain mysterious from a scientific point of view. Everyday acts - naming an object, suppressing the urge to say something, or grabbing a waiter's attention with a "cappuccino, please" - remain difficult to understand from a mechanist...