A simple and unified approach to human voluntary movements.
In his provocative article, F. Mechsner (2004) advances the thesis that human voluntary movements are subject to "psychological" or "perceptual-cognitive" control and are thus organized "without regard to efferent patterns" (p. 355). Rather than considering in detail the experiments that he proffered by way of support, the present author discusses the degree to which that supposition has appeal on the grounds of simplicity and is defined in terms that are compatible with a unified science.
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Perception and Motor Systems Laboratory, School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Gqueensland 4072, Australia. richard@hms.uq.edu.au
D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D010465:Perception; D014836:Volition