Automatic motor activation in the executive control of action

McBride, Jennifer, Boy, Frederic, Husain, Masud and Sumner, Petroc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0536-0510 2012. Automatic motor activation in the executive control of action. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6 , 82. 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00082

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Abstract

Although executive control and automatic behavior have often been considered separate and distinct processes, there is strong emerging and convergent evidence that they may in fact be intricately interlinked. In this review, we draw together evidence showing that visual stimuli cause automatic and unconscious motor activation, and how this in turn has implications for executive control. We discuss object affordances, alien limb syndrome, the visual grasp reflex, subliminal priming, and subliminal triggering of attentional orienting. Consideration of these findings suggests automatic motor activation might form an intrinsic part of all behavior, rather than being categorically different from voluntary actions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	action, cognitive control, response inhibition, unconscious, volition
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Publisher:	Frontiers Media
ISSN:	1662-5161
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	10 May 2023 02:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/31176

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