Rethinking Vision and Action

Overview

Journal Annu Rev Psychol

Publisher Annual Reviews

Specialty Psychology

Date 2023 Jan 18

PMID 36652303

Authors

Ken Nakayama

Jeff Moher

Joo-Hyun Song

Affiliations

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Abstract

Action is an important arbitrator as to whether an individual or a species will survive. Yet, action has not been well integrated into the study of psychology. Action or motor behavior is a field apart. This is traditional science with its need for specialization. The sequence in a typical laboratory experiment of see → decide → act provides the rationale for broad disciplinary categorizations. With renewed interest in action itself, surprising and exciting anomalous findings at odds with this simplified caricature have emerged. They reveal a much more intimate coupling of vision and action, which we describe. In turn, this prompts us to identify and dwell on three pertinent theories deserving of greater notice.

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