Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Motor Intention/Intentionality and Associationism - A conceptual review

  • Regular Article
  • Published:
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Motor intention/intentionality (MI) has been investigated from many different angles. Some researchers focus on the purely physical and mechanical aspects of the human motor system, while others emphasize the subjectivity involved in intentionality. While bridging this seemingly dualistic gap between the two concepts ought to be the researcher’s’ main task, different schools of thought have instead specialized in stressing one (objective) or the other (subjective) part of this construct. Thus, we find everything from neuroscientific to phenomenologically inspired approaches to MI. The purpose of this article is to review the literature regarding these different approaches to the MI construct. In reviewing the literature, we introduce a broadened conception of associationism. In organizing our data in relation to the laws of association, a lack of methodology clearly manifests itself. Hence, 123 articles out of 143 meet the criteria of our definition of associationism. It seems that this old doctrine sneaks in to a big part of the research rather implicitly through a lack of methodology. To shed light on how this happens in the 123 articles, we develop a continuum to show to which extend associationism operates on a transcendent or substantial level in each article. We find only very few articles that seem to try to gap the bridge between motor and intention/intentionality, and thus we suggest that future MI research reintroduce methodological debates concerning the conceptual character of this construct.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Ackerley, R., & Kavounoudias, A. (2015). The role of tactile afference in shaping motor behaviour and implications for prosthetic innovation. Neuropsychologia, 79(2015), 192–205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.024.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Adolph, K.E. et al (2005). Physical and Motor Development. In Developmental science: An advanced textbook., 223–81. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

  • Althusser, L. (1990) Philosophy and the spontaneous philosophy of the scientists & other essays.

  • Aristotle. (2001). Aristotles on the soul. London: Green Lion Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Aristotle, Bloch, D.K., (2006): Aristotle, De Memoria et Reminiscentia. Text, Translation and Interpretive Essays. Ph.D. thesis, Københavns Universitet.

  • Baron-Cohen S., Tager-Flusberg H., Lombardo M., (2000); Understanding Other Minds. Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience. 1. ed. Oxford Books.

  • Bastian, H. C. (1888). The ‘muscular sense’; its nature and cortical localisation. Brain, 10, 1–137.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind. University of Chicago Press.

  • Becchio, C., Manera, V., Sartori, L., Cavallo, A., & Castiello, U. (2012). Grasping intentions: From thought experiments to empirical evidence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 117. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00117.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Boland, A., Cherry, M. G., & Dickson, R. (2014). Doing a systematic review: A students guide. Los Angeles: SAGE.

    Google Scholar 

  • Boulay, C. B., Pieper, F., Leavitt, M., Martinez-Trujillo, J., & Sachs, A. J. (2015). Single-trial decoding of intended eye movement goals from lateral prefrontal cortex neural ensembles. Journal of Neurophysiology, 115, 486–499. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00788.2015.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Brandone, A.C. (2015). “Infants’ social and motor experience and the emerging understanding of intentional actions”. Developmental Psychology 51, nr. 4: 512–523. doi:https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038844.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brandone, A.C. & Wellman, H.M. (2009). “You can’t always get what you want: Infants understand failed goal-directed actions”. Psychological Science 20, nr. 1: 85–91. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02246.x.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brentano, F. (1874). Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte. Leipzig: Verlag Duncker & Humblot, s. 115/116.

  • Brownell, C.A., Svetlova, M, & Nichols, S.R. (2011). Emergence and early development of the body image, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139019484.004.

  • Butterworth, G., & Hopkins, B. (1988). Hand-mouth coordination in the new-born baby. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6(4), 303–314.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Casartelli, L., & Molteni, M. (2014). Where there is a goal, there is a way: What, why and how the parieto-frontal mirror network can mediate imitative behaviours. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 47(2014), 177–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.08.004.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Cignetti, F., Chabeauti, P. Y., Sveistrup, H., Vaugoyeau, M., & Assaiante, C. (2013). Updating process of internal models of action as assessed from motor and postural strategies in children. Neuroscience, 233, 127–138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.12.040.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Cloonan, T.F. (2012). “Moves and countermoves.” PsycCRITIQUES 57, nr. 17 (2012). http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2012-08239-001&site=ehost-live.

  • Cole, J. (2007). The phenomenology of agency and intention in the face of paralysis and insentience. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6(3), 309–325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-007-9051-5.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dalenoort, G.J. (1997). “In search of control variables: A systems approach.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20, nr. 4: 772.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Jong, B. M. (2011). Neurology of widely embedded free will. Cortex, 47, 1160–1165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2011.06.011.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • De Raeymaecker, D. M. (2006). Psychomotor development and psychopathology in childhood. International Review of Neurobiology, 72, 83–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0074-7742(05)72005-5.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Delafield-Butt, J.T., & Gangopadhyay, N. (2013). “Sensorimotor intentionality: The origins of intentionality in prospective agent action”. Developmental Review 33, nr. 4: 399–425. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2013.09.001.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Delafield-Butt, J. T., & Trevarthen, C. (2015a). The ontogenesis of narrative: From moving to meaning. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1157. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01157.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Desmurget, M. (2013). “Searching for the neural correlates of conscious intention.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 25, nr. 6: 830–833.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Desmurget, M. & Sirigu, A. (2009).“A parietal-premotor network for movement intention and motor awareness.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13, nr. 10: 411–419.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Donnarumma, F., Dindo, H., & Pezzulo, G. (2017). Sensorimotor Coarticulation in the execution and recognition of intentional actions. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 237. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00237.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Dosso, J. A., & Boudreau, J. P. (2014). Crawling and walking infants encounter objects differently in a multi-target environment. Experimental Brain Research, 232, 3047–3054. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-3984-z.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Elsner, B. (2007). “Infants’ imitation of goal-directed actions: The role of movements and action effects.” Acta Psychologica 124, nr. 1: 44–59.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Engelsted, N. (1984). Springet fra dyr til menneske – en argumentationsskitse. København: Dansk psykologisk Forlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Engelsted, N. (1989). Personlighedens almene grundlag I & II. In Århus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Engelsted, N. (2017). Catching up with Aristotle. Berlin: Springer.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Español, S. (2007). Time and movement in symbol formation. In The Cambridge handbook of sociocultural psychology (pp. 238–256). Argentina: Cambridge University Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Falck-Ytter, T., Gredebäck, G., Hofsten, C.V. (2006). “Infants predict other people’s action goals.” Nature Neuroscience 9, nr. 7: 878–879.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Feldman A. & Levin, Mindy, F., 1995. The origin and use of positional frames of reference in motor control. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (4):723.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Feldman A. & Levin, Mindy F., 1997. (Author Response) Control variables in movement production: An experimentally derived concept. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20, nr. 4: 773.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Field, H. (1978). Mental representation. Erkenntnis, 13(1), 9–61.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fogel, A. (1992). Movement and communication in human infancy: The social dynamics of development. Human Movement Science, 11, 387–423.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frith, C.D. (2014). “Action, agency and responsibility”. Neuropsychologia 55, nr. 1: 137–142. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.007.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gattis, M. (2002). Goal-directed imitation. In The imitative mind: Development, evolution and brain bases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (1997 May). (1997). Teleological reasoning in infancy: The infant's naive theory of rational action. Cognition, 63(2), 227–233.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gibson, J. J. (1977). The theory of affordances (pp. 67–82). In R. Shaw & J. Bransford (Eds.), Perceiving, acting, and knowing: Toward an ecological psychology. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gleick, J. (1989). Chaos: Making a new science. Viking Books.

  • Goldberg, G. (1985). “Supplementary motor area structure and function: Review and hypotheses”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8, nr. 4: 567–588. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00045167.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gould, S. J. (2002). The structure of evolutionary theory. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Guggisberg, A. G., & Mottaz, A. (2013). Timing and awareness of movement decisions: Does consciousness really come too late? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 385. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00385.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Gutteling, T. P., Petridou, N., Dumoulin, S. O., Harvey, B. M., Aarnoutse, E. J., & Kenemans, J. L. (2015). Action preparation shapes processing in early visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 6472–6480. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1358-14.2015.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Haggard, P. (2005). “Conscious intention and motor cognition.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9, nr. 6: 290–295.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Haggard, P., & Cole, J. (2007). “Intention, attention and the temporal experience of action”. Consciousness and Cognition 16, nr. 2: 211–220. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2006.07.002.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Haggard, P., Clark, S., & Kalogeras, J. (2002). Voluntary action and conscious awareness. Nature Neuroscience, 5(4), 382–385. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn827.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Haggard, P., Sebanz, N., Prinz, W. (2006). Conscious intention and the sense of agency. In Disorders of volition., 69–85. MIT Press.

  • Hårbøl, K, Schack, J., & Spang-Hanssen, H. (1999). Dansk Fremmedordbog, 2. udg. Gyldendal.

  • Heyes, C. (2001). “Causes and consequences of imitation.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5, nr. 6: 253–261.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hommel, B. (2003). Planning and representing intentional action. Thescientificworldjournal, 3, 593–608. https://doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2003.46.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Horne, P.J., Erjavec, M., & Lovett, V.E. (2009). “The effects of modelling, local stimulus enhancement, and affordance demonstration on the production of object-directed actions in 6-month-old infants”. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 27, nr. 2: 269–281. doi:https://doi.org/10.1348/026151008X297126.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hurley, S. (2008). “The shared circuits model (SCM): How control, mirroring, and simulation can enable imitation, deliberation, and mindreading.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31, nr. 1: 1–22.

  • Husserl, E. (1892). Philosophische Kritik, vol. 100, pp. 25–50.

  • Husserl, E. (1929-1935). Zur Phanomenologie der Intersubjektivität. Texte aus dem Nachlass, part 3.

  • Husserl, E., & Claesges, U. (1973). Ding und Raum, Vorlesungen 1907 (Husserliana Gesammelte Werke 16). Haag: Martinus Nijhoff.

  • Jeannerod, M. (1997). The cognitive neuroscience of action. Blackwell.

  • Jeannerod (2006). Motor cognition: What actions tell the self. Oxford University Press.

  • Jensen, M., Vagnoni, E., Overgaard, M., & Haggard, P. (2014). Experience of action depends on intention, not body movement: An experiment on memory for mens Rea. Neuropsychologia, 55, 122–127.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Katz, H. M. (2002). Escaping gravity: Movie magic and dreams of flying. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 57, 294–304.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Køppe, S. (1998). Videnskabelige modeller. Semiotik, vol. 14.

  • Køppe S. (2012). En moderat Eklekticisme, Psyke & Logos Nr. 1 Årgang 29.

  • Køppe, S. (2013), Modalitetter, cognition og sprog. Kropslig og taktil udvikling – en antologi om forskellige sprogmodalitetters muligheder og umuligheder, undersøgt med afsæt i personer med medfødt døvblindhed.

  • Køppe, S. (2016). Meaning, representations and the preunconscious. The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 39(1), 70–79.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lanska, D. J. (2010). Chapter 33: The history of movement disorders. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 95, 501–546.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Latash, M. L. (2016). Towards physics of neural processes and behavior. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 69, 136–146.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lew E., et al (2012). Self-paced movement intention detection from human brain signals: Invasive and non-invasive EEG. Conference Proceedings: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, 2012, 3280–3. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346665

  • Lewis, B. J., (1978). Sensory deprivation in young children. Child: Care, Health and Development 4, nr. 4: 229–238.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewkowicz, D. (2011). The biological implausibility of the nature-nurture dichotomy and what it means for the study of infancy. Infancy, 16(4), 331–367.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lewkowicz, D., Delevoye-Turrell, Y., Bailly, D., Andry, P., & Gaussier, P. (2013). “Reading motor intention through mental imagery.” Adaptive Behavior 21, nr. 5: 315–327.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Libet, B., Wright Jr., E. W., & Gleason, C. A. (1982). Readiness-potentials preceding unrestricted 'spontaneous' vs. pre-planned voluntary acts. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 54(3), 322–335.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mammen, J., & Mironenko, I. (2015). Activity theories and the ontology of psychology: Learning from Danish and Russian experiences. Integrative Psychological Behavioral Science, 49(4), 681–713.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mandelbaum, E. (2017). "Associationist theories of thought", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

  • Marks, L. E. (1978). The Unity of the senses. Interrelations among the modalities. New-York: Acedemic-press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mechsner, F. (1996). “A new theory of cerebellar function.” Connection Science 8, nr. 1: 31–54.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Meltzoff, A.N. (1999). “Origins of theory of mind, cognition and communication”. Journal of Communication Disorders 32, nr. 4: 251–269.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Merleau-Ponty, M. (1960). Signes: La perception d'autrui et le dialogue.

  • Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Smith, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.

  • Moore, J.W. & Obhi, S.S (2012). “Intentional binding and the sense of agency: A review”. Consciousness and Cognition 21, nr. 1: 546–561.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moran, D. (2013). Let's look at it Objectively': Why phenomenology cannot be naturalized. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 72, 89–115.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Oberg, G. K., Blanchard, Y., & Obstfelder, A. (2014). Therapeutic encounters with preterm infants: Interaction, posture and movement. Physiotherapy Theory & Practice, 30, 1–5.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pachoud, B., Petitot, J., Varela, F.J. (1999). “The teleological dimension of perceptual and motor intentionality.” I naturalizing phenomenology: Issues in contemporary phenomenology and cognitive science., 196–219. Stanford University Press.

  • Papoušek, H. & Papoušek, M. (1992). “Movement: Modern dance and traditional steps: Reaction to Fogel, 1992.” Human Movement Science 11, nr. 4: 461–468.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Petit, J.L., Grammont, F., Legrand, D., Livet, P. (2010). “Intention in phenomenology and neuroscience: Intentionalizing kinesthesia as an operator of constitution.” I naturalizing intention in action., 269–92. MIT Press.

  • Phillips, A.T., & Wellman, H.M (2005). “Infants’ understanding of object-directed action”. Cognition 98, nr. 2: 137–155. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2004.11.005.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pierre, J. (2014). "Intentionality", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

  • Pitt, D. (2017) Mental representation, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).

  • Polanyi, M. (1966). The tacit dimension. University of Chicago Press.

  • Ragans, V. (2008). Anvendeligheden af en intentionsbaseret teori om motorikken i spædbarnspsykologien. Psyke & Logos 29, nr. 2: 451–470.

  • Rosenbaum, D.A., Krist, H., Heuer, H., Keele, S.W. (1996). “Antecedents of action.” I handbook of perception and action, Vol. 2: Motor skills., 3–69. Academic press,

  • Salvaris, M., & Haggard, P. (2014). Decoding intention at sensorimotor timescales. PLoS One, 9, e85100. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085100.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Sandamirskaya, Y., Zibner, S.K.U., Schneegans, S., & Schöner, G. (2013). Using dynamic field theory to extend the embodiment stance toward higher cognition”. New Ideas in Psychology 31, nr. 3: 322–339.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schwartz, A. B. (2016). Movement: How the brain communicates with the world. Cell, 164, 1122–1135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.02.038.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Searl, J. (1983). Intentionality: An essay in the philosophy of mind. Cambridge University press.

  • Searl, J. (1995). The construction of social reality. London Penguin Books. p. 14–29.

  • Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1999). Primacy of movement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publ.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Sherrington, C. S. (1907). On the proprioceptive system, especially in its reflex aspect. Brain, 29(4), 467–485.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shibasaki, H., & Hallett, M. (2006). What is the Bereitschaftspotential? Clinical Neurophysiology, 117, 2341–2356.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Silvers, S. (1991). On naturalizing the semantics of mental representation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 42(March), 49–73.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Solomon, H.Y., & Turvey, M.T (1988). “Haptically perceiving the distances reachable with hand-held objects”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 14, nr. 3: 404–427.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Spencer, H. (1890). The principles of Psychology. Vol. 1. 3. Ed. Publication date 1896, Williams and Norgate London.

  • Stern, D. N. (2008). In ) (Ed.), The interpersonal world of the infant: a view from psychoanalysis and developmental psychology. London: American Psychoanalytic Association.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thelen, E. (1991). Timing in motor development as emergent process and product. Advances in Psychology 81, nr. C: 201–211.

  • Thelen, E., Corbetta, D., Kamm, K., Spencer, J. P., Schneider, K., & Zernicke, R. F. (1993). The transition to reaching: Mapping intention and intrinsic dynamics. Child Development, 64(4), 1058–1098.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tomasello, M. & Call, J. (1997). Primate Cognition. Oxford University Press.

  • Torres, E. B. (2016). Rethinking the study of volition for clinical use. Advances in Experimental Medicine & Biology, 957, 229–254 Trans. Gregory Elliot. Radical Thinkers.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Trevarthen, C., & Delafield-Butt, J. T. (2013). Autism as a developmental disorder in intentional movement and affective engagement. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 7.

  • Trimble, M.R. (2016). The intentional brain: Motion, emotion, and the development of modern neuropsychiatry. Johns Hopkins University Press.

  • Tudge, J., Shanahan, M.J., & Valsiner, J. (1997). Comparisons in human development: Understanding time and context. Cambridge Studies.

  • Valsiner, J. (1986). The individual subject and scientific psychology (perspectives on individual differences). New York: Plenum Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Valsiner, J. (2000). Culture and human development.

  • Valsiner, J. (2007). Gilbert Gottlieb’s theory of probabilistic epigenesis: Probabilities and realities in development. Developmental Psychobiology, 49(8), 832–840. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.20276.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Valsiner, J. (2017). From methodology to methods in human psychology. Berlin: Springer.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Warren, H. (1921). A history of the association psychology. Charles Scribner's Sons.

  • Wilmut, K., Byrne, M., & Barnett, A. L. (2013). To throw or to place: Does onward intention affect how a child reaches for an object? Experimental Brain Research, 226, 421–429.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Windelband W. (1894). History and Natural Science. p. 1–18. Theory & Psychology. 1998 Sage Puplications. Vol. 8(1):5–22.

  • Winegar, L. (1996). Developmental research and comparative perspectives: Applications to developmental sciences in comparisons in human development.

  • Zhong, J.Y. (2016). “What does neuroscience research tell us about human consciousness? An overview of Benjamin Libet’s legacy.” Journal of Mind and Behavior 37, nr. 3–4: 287–310.

  • Zhu, J. (2003). Reclaiming volition: An alternative interpretation of Libets experiment. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10(11), 61–77.

Download references

Acknowledgements

This article is the result of a joint work carried out by Denis Ebbesen (Instructor in Developmental Psychology, UCPH) and Jeppe Olsen (Instructor in Philosophy of Science, UCPH), under the generous supervision of Professor Simo Køppe, UCPH, Department of Psychology, whom we would like to thank.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Denis Ebbesen & Jeppe Olsen

Authors
  1. Denis Ebbesen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jeppe Olsen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Denis Ebbesen.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Human and Animal Studies

This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Ebbesen, D., Olsen, J. Motor Intention/Intentionality and Associationism - A conceptual review. Integr. psych. behav. 52, 565–594 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-018-9441-y

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-018-9441-y

Keywords

Search

Navigation