Anatomy & Physiology

Anatomy & Physiology
Author: Lindsay Biga
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781955101158

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The Sense of Agency

The Sense of Agency
Author: Patrick Haggard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190267291

Agency has two meanings in psychology and neuroscience. It can refer to one's capacity to affect the world and act in line with one's goals and desires--this is the objective aspect of agency. But agency can also refer to the subjective experience of controlling one's actions, or how it feels to achieve one's goals or affect the world. This subjective aspect is known as the sense of agency, and it is an important part of what makes us human. Interest in the sense of agency has exploded since the early 2000s, largely because scientists have learned that it can be studied objectively through analyses of human judgment, behavior, and the brain. This book brings together some of the world's leading researchers to give structure to this nascent but rapidly growing field. The contributors address questions such as: What role does agency play in the sense of self? Is agency based on predicting outcomes of actions? And what are the links between agency and motivation? Recent work on the sense of agency has been markedly interdisciplinary. The chapters collected here combine ideas and methods from fields as diverse as engineering, psychology, neurology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, making the book a valuable resource for any student or researcher interested in action, volition, and exploring how mind and brain are organized.

Joint Attention

Joint Attention
Author: Axel Seemann
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2012-01-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0262300621

Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention. Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention—the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature—has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what joint attention is, how it ought to be characterized, and what exactly its significance consists in. The writers for this volume address these and related questions by drawing on a variety of disciplines, including developmental and comparative psychology, philosophy of mind, and social neuroscience. The volume organizes their contributions along three main themes: definitional concerns, such as the question of whether or not joint attention should be understood as an irreducibly basic state of mind; processes and mechanisms obtaining on both the neural and behavioral levels; and the functional significance of joint attention, in particular the role it plays in comprehending spatial perspectives and understanding other minds. The collected papers present new work by leading researchers on one of the key issues in social cognition. They demonstrate that an adequate theory of joint attention is indispensable for a comprehensive account of mind.

Joint Commitment

Joint Commitment
Author: Margaret Gilbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190251956

This new essay collection by distinguished philosopher Margaret Gilbert provides a richly textured argument for the importance of joint commitment in our personal and public lives. Topics covered by these diverse essays range from marital love to patriotism, from promissory obligation to the unity of the European Union.

Attention and Performance IX

Attention and Performance IX
Author: John Long
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1981
Genre: Art
ISBN:

First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Philosophy of Sociality

The Philosophy of Sociality
Author: Raimo Tuomela
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2007-08-16
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0195313399

Concepts based on full-blown collective intentionality (aboutness) are central for understanding the social world. The book systematically studies social groups, collective commitment, group intentions, beliefs, and actions, especially authority-based group attitudes and actions, also addressing cooperation, cultural evolution, and responsibility.

Coordination: Neural, Behavioral and Social Dynamics

Coordination: Neural, Behavioral and Social Dynamics
Author: Armin Fuchs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2007-12-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540744797

One of the most striking features of Coordination Dynamics is its interdisciplinary character. The problems we are trying to solve in this field range from behavioral phenomena of interlimb coordination and coordination between stimuli and movements (perception-action tasks) through neural activation patterns that can be observed during these tasks to clinical applications and social behavior. It is not surprising that close collaboration among scientists from different fields as psychology, kinesiology, neurology and even physics are imperative to deal with the enormous difficulties we are facing when we try to understand a system as complex as the human brain. The chapters in this volume are not simply write-ups of the lectures given by the experts at the meeting but are written in a way that they give sufficient introductory information to be comprehensible and useful for all interested scientists and students.