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The information processing revolution that came to psychology in the wake of behaviorism has by now established two cornerstones upon which motor behavior theories as well as methodology are based. One is the conceptual distinction between the nature of various cognitive processes (attention, memory, intentions, reasoning, etc.) and overt behavior itself, and the other is the notion that motor acts are centrally represented, that like other memorial representations they are stored, modified, and retrieved through the distinct cognitive processing. To the extent that theorists in motor behavior have conceptualized action from an information processing approach, they have found it useful, if not necessary, to incorporate these two views.
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Stelmach, G.E., Hughes, B.G. (1984). Cognitivism and Future Theories of Action: Some Basic Issues. In: Prinz, W., Sanders, A.F. (eds) Cognition and Motor Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69382-3_1
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