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Perception and Action

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This chapter discusses the relationship between perception and action. Adaptation studies show that conscious perception can be dissociated from action control, and there is evidence that perception and action interact along several concurrent processing pathways. Perception has a systematic impact on action control, but action control processes also affect the perception of, and attention to external stimuli. The available evidence suggests that perception and action are more interwoven and interdependent than commonly thought, and a theoretical framework is presented that explains how perception-action interactions may operate.

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  1. Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Bernhard Hommel & Stephen B. R. E. Brown

  2. Institute of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Dieter Nattkemper

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Hommel, B., Brown, S.B.R.E., Nattkemper, D. (2016). Perception and Action. In: Human Action Control. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09244-7_4

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