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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Haggard, P

Titel

Coordinating actions

Ist Teil von

• The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology, 1997, Vol.50 (4), p.707-725

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The motor system composes complex actions by combining simpler submovements. This presumably involves sharing information about the progress of one submovement with the centres controlling another submovement, to ensure that the second happens in an appropriate relation to the first. This process is called coordination. In this paper I discuss evidence that coordinating actions indeed involves an active process of sharing information about the current state of movements. Coordination appears to be qualitatively different from the process of reacting to external stimuli. This may reflect the importance of predictive representations in coordination. Finally, the processes underlying coordination appear to be organized in a response-specific fashion, as a number of relatively independent circuits. The development and tuning of these circuits may, in part, be what makes an action "skilled".