Table of Contents

1: The Mechanisms of Human action: Introduction and Background
Ezequiel Morsella
Part One Basic Principles, Systems, and Phenomena
2: Cognition and Action
Wolfgang Prinz, Gisa Aschersleben, and Iring Koch
3: The Inhibition of Unwanted Actions
Clayton E. Curtis and Mark D'Esposito
4: The Visual Control of Object Manipulation

David A. Westwood
5: The Two Horses of Behavior: Reflection and Impulse

Fritz Strack, Roland Deutsch, and Regina Krieglmeyer
Part Two The Activation, Selection and Expression of Action
6: Smart Moves: The Psychology of Everyday Perceptual-Motor Acts

David A. Rosenbaum, Jonathan Vaughan, Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek, Steven Jax, and Rajal G. Cohen
7: How the Mind Moves the Body - Lessons From Apraxia
Georg Goldenberg
8: Speech Errors and the Implicit Learning of Phonological Sequences

Gary S. Dell, Jill A. Warker, and Christine Whalen
9: What Do We Prime? On Distinguishing Between Semantic Priming, Procedural Priming, and Goal Priming

Jens Förster, Nira Liberman, and Ronald S. Friedman
Part Three Action and Mental Representation
10: The Prefrontal Cortex Stores Structured Event Complexes that are the Representational Basis for Cognitively-Derived Actions

Jordan Grafman and Frank Krueger
11: Interactions Between Action and Visual Objects

Rob Ellis
12: The Movement of Eye and Hand as a Window Into Language and Cognition
Michael Spivey, Daniel Richardson, and Rick Dale
13: Action Representation as the Bedrock of Social Cognition: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective
Jean Decety and Jessica A. Sommerville
Part Four Affect, Goals, and Motivation
14: Affect and Action Control
Deidre L. Reis and Jeremy R. Gray
15: Action, Affect, and Two-Mode Models of Functioning
Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier
16: From Goal-Activation to Action: How Does Preference and Use of Knowledge Intervene?

Arthur B. Markman, C. Miguel Brendl, and Kyungil Kim
17: The Role of Goal-Systems in Self-Regulation

Arie W. Kruglanski and Catalina Kopetz
Part Five The Origins and Sources of Action
18: Acquisition, Representation, and Control of Action
Bernhard Hommel and Birgit Elsner
19: Flexibility in the Development of Action
Bernhard Hommel and Birgit Elsner
20: The Role of Memory
Gordon D. Logan
21: Automaticity in situ: The Nature of Habit in Daily Life

David T. Neal and Wendy Wood
22: Mimicry: Its Upiquity, Importance and Functionality
Tanya L. Chartrand and Amy N. Dalton
Part Six Control, Choice, and Volition
23: Free Willpower: A Limited Resource Theory of Volition, Choice, and Self-Regulation
Roy F. Baumeister, Matthew T. Gaillot, and Dianne M. Tice
24: Decision Utility, Incentive Salience, and Cue-Triggered 'Wanting'
Kent C. Berridge and J. Wayne Aldridge
25: On the Neural Implementation of Optimal Decisions
Patrick Simen, Philip Holmes, and Jonathan D. Cohen
26: Non-Conscious Goal Pursuit and the Effortful Control of Behavior
Ran R. Hassin, Henk Aarts, Baruch Eitam, Ruud Custers, and Tali Kleiman
Part Seven Phenomenal and Metacognitive Components of Action
27: Elbow Grease: When Action Feels Like Work Jesse Preston and Daniel M. Wegner
28: Consciousness as a Trouble Shooting Device? The Role of Consciousness in Goal Pursuit
Karin C. A. Bongers and Ap Dijksterhuis
29: Living on the Edge: Shifting Between Nonconscious and Conscious Goal Pursuit

eter M. Gollwitzer, Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm, and Gabriele Oettingen
30: The Primary Function of Consciousness: Why Skeletal Muscles are 'Voluntary' Muscles
Ezequiel Morsella, Stephen C. Krieger, and John A. Bargh

About the Author

Ezequiel Morsella, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Social Cognitive Neuroscience at San Francisco State University and an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.

He conducted his doctoral research at Columbia University and his postdoctoral training at Yale University. His theoretical and experimental research on the mechanisms of human action has appeared in journals such as Psychological Review and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition