What is a task? An ideomotor perspective
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DOI: 10.1007/s00426-017-0942-y
Abstract: Although multitasking has been the subject of a large number of papers and experiments, the term task is still not well defined. In this opinion paper, we adopt the ideomotor perspective to define the term… read more here.
Keywords: goal; task; concrete goals; ideomotor perspective ... See more keywords
Intention Insertion: Activating an Action’s Perceptual Consequences Is Sufficient to Induce Non-Willed Motor Behavior
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DOI: 10.1037/xge0000435
Abstract: It feels intuitive that our actions are intentional, but there is considerable debate about whether (and how) humans control their motor behavior. Recent ideomotor theories of action argue that action intentions are fundamentally perceptual, that… read more here.
Keywords: motor behavior; perceptual consequences; ideomotor; action ... See more keywords
Strong evidence for ideomotor theory: Unwilled manifestation of the conceptual attribute in movement control
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1066839
Abstract: Scientific understanding of how the mind generates bodily actions remains opaque. In the early 19th century, the ideomotor theory proposed that humans generate voluntary actions by imagining the sensory consequence of those actions, implying that… read more here.
Keywords: ideomotor theory; ideomotor; evidence ideomotor; control ... See more keywords