Mind and Motion: The Bidirectional Link between Thought and Action: Progress in Brain Research

Markus Raab · Joseph Johnson · Hauke Heekeren

May 2009 · Elsevier

About this ebook

This volume investigates the implications of how our brain directs our movements on decision making. An extensive body of knowledge in chapters from international experts is presented as well as integrative group reports discussing new directions for future research.The understanding of how people make decisions is of central interest to experts working in fields such as psychology, economics, movement science, cognitive neuroscience, neuroinformatics, robotics, and sport science. For the first time the current volume provides a multidisciplinary overview of how action and cognition are integrated in the planning of and decisions about action.

• Offers intense, focused, and genuine interdisciplinary perspective
• Conveys state-of-the-art and outlines future research directions on the hot topic of mind and motion (or embodied cognition)
• Includes contributions from psychologists, neuroscientists, movement scientists, economists, and others

About the author

Professor Markus Raab (GSU) is Head of the Institute of Psychology at the German Sport University and Head of the Performance Psychology Department. Additionally, he is Research Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, UK. The main focus of the research programme in performance psychology is on judgement and decision making in sports, health and peak performance. He favours a simple heuristic approach and an embodied cognition approach to understanding the interaction of sensorimotor and cognitive behaviour from a psychological perspective. Prof. Raab has about 80 scientific publications in well to highly ranked journals, was awarded by European and international scientific associations and has supervised 10 PhDs in graduate schools or in individual supervision.