title: Mind and movement.
abstract: Voluntary movements embrace both intentional, conscious and post-intentional, largely automatic processes. Here, we examine these types of processes and the relations between them during preparation and execution of voluntary movements. First, a general overview is given about how intentional and post-intentional components are interleaved to enable successful control of purposeful movements. Second, we briefly describe some post-intentional processes that are triggered by preceding intentions. Third, we discuss findings according to which such post-intentional processes or their results can become accessible to conscious awareness. Under such conditions, automatic and conscious processes can co-occur. We show that intentional interventions into post-intentional processes can be overridden by automatic processes, can interfere with automatic processes and can be independent so that their outcomes add to those of automatic processes.
authors.affiliation: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Ardeystraße 67, 44139, Dortmund, Germany. heuer@ifado.de
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Heuer
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sülzenbrück
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D011603:Psychophysiology