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- Title
Intentional weighting: a basic principle in cognitive control.
- Authors
Memelink, Jiska; Hommel, Bernhard
- Abstract
Human perception and action are tailored to the situation at hand, and thus reflect the current intentions of the perceiver/actor. We suggest that this is achieved by an 'intentional-weighting' mechanism. It operates on the cognitive representations of the features of perceived events and produced event-perceptions and actions that is. Intention- or goal-related feature dimensions are weighted more strongly, so that feature values defined on the respective dimension have a stronger impact on information processing, and stimulus and response selection in particular. This article discusses what intentional weighting is, how such a mechanism may work, and how it relates to available research on attention, action planning, and executive control.
- Subjects
INTENTION (Logic); COGNITIVE ability; SENSORY perception; CONTROL (Psychology); BRAIN stimulation; INFORMATION processing
- Publication
Psychological Research, 2013, Vol 77, Issue 3, p249
- ISSN
0340-0727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00426-012-0435-y