title: Intentional weighting: a basic principle in cognitive control.
abstract: Human perception and action are tailored to the situation at hand, and thus reflect the current intentions of the perceiver/actor. We suggest that this is achieved by an "intentional-weighting" mechanism. It operates on the cognitive representations of the features of perceived events and produced event--perceptions and actions that is. Intention- or goal-related feature dimensions are weighted more strongly, so that feature values defined on the respective dimension have a stronger impact on information processing, and stimulus and response selection in particular. This article discusses what intentional weighting is, how such a mechanism may work, and how it relates to available research on attention, action planning, and executive control.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Psychological Research and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jiska
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Memelink
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hommel
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D010465:Perception