Conscious and Unconscious Control of Spatial Action

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Abstract

Conscious and unconscious representations are related to different aspects of spatial actions. Conscious experience is most closely related to the goal of an action and its intended consequences. It is based on a rather general, highly integrated representation of the action but has no access to motor programming or sensorimotor processing, which is taken care of by unconscious representations and processes.

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Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hommel holds the chair of “Gerneral Psychology” at Leiden University since 1999, after having worked as senior researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research (PhD at the University of Bielefeld in 1990; Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich). His research focuses on congnitive, computational, developmental, neural, and neurochemical mechanisms of human attention and action control, and the role of consciousness therein. He served as Associate Editor of ActaPsychologica, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, and the Quarterly Journal of Psychology, and currently is editor-in-chief of Psychological Research and Frontiers of Cognition. He has (co-) edited two books on action control and the relationship between perception and action, and co-edited several special issues on attention and action control. He has (co-) authored more than 300 articles in international journals and numerous chapters in readers and psychological textbooks.

Change History: September 2015. B Hommel updated abstract, keywords, Biographical section, and Figures.

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