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Perception and action planning: Getting it together

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

David A. Westwood
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2 Canada dwestwood@uwo.ca
Melvyn A. Goodale
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology and Physiology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2 Canada mgoodale@uwo.ca http://www.sscl.uwo.ca/psychology/faculty/goodale/
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Abstract

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Hommel et al. propose that high-level perception and action planning share a common representational domain, which facilitates the control of intentional actions. On the surface, this point of view appears quite different from an alternative account that suggests that “action” and “perception” are functionally and neurologically dissociable processes. But it is difficult to reconcile these apparently different perspectives, because Hommel et al. do not clearly specify what they mean by “perception” and “action planning.” With respect to the visual control of action, a distinction must be made between conscious visual perception and unconscious visuomotor processing. Hommel et al. must also distinguish between the what and how aspects of action planning, that is, planning what to do versus planning how to do it.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press