Towards a Unitary Approach to Human Action Control.

Abstract:

:From its academic beginnings the theory of human action control has distinguished between endogenously driven, intentional action and exogenously driven, habitual, or automatic action. We challenge this dual-route model and argue that attempts to provide clear-cut and straightforward criteria to distinguish between intentional and automatic action have systematically failed. Specifically, we show that there is no evidence for intention-independent action, and that attempts to use the criterion of reward sensitivity and rationality to differentiate between intentional and automatic action are conceptually unsound. As a more parsimonious, and more feasible, alternative we suggest a unitary approach to action control, according to which actions are (i) represented by codes of their perceptual effects, (ii) selected by matching intention-sensitive selection criteria, and (ii) moderated by metacontrol states.

journal_name

Trends Cogn Sci

authors

Hommel B,Wiers RW

doi

10.1016/j.tics.2017.09.009

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-12-01 00:00:00

pages

940-949

issue

12

eissn

1364-6613

issn

1879-307X

pii

S1364-6613(17)30197-3

journal_volume

21

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