Intercepting and avoiding collisions with moving objects are fundamental skills in daily life.
Anticipatory behavior is required because of significant delays in transforming sensory …

Efficient prospective motor control, evident in human activity from birth, reveals an adaptive
intentionality of a primary, pre-reflective, and pre-conceptual nature that we identify here as …

How does the nervous system synchronize movements to catch a falling ball? According to
one theory, only sensory information is used to estimate time-to-contact (TTC) with an …

Studies of sensory guidance of movement in animals show that large nervous systems are
not necessary for accurate control, suggesting that guidance may be based on some simple …

It was proposed almost 50 years ago that ageing is non-adaptive and is the consequence of
a decline in the force of natural selection with age. This led to the theory that ageing results …

Prospective motor control moves the body into the future, from where one is to where one
wants to be. It is a hallmark of intentionality. But its origin in development is uncertain. In this …

Music moves us. Its rhythms can make our bodies dance and its tones and melodies can stir
emotions. It brings life to solitary thoughts and memories, can comfort and relieve loneliness …

Actions that involve making contact with surfaces often demand perceptual regulation of the
impact—for example, of feet with ground when walking or of bat with ball when hitting. Here …

Most theoretical and empirical discussions about the nature of consciousness are typically
couched in a way that endorses a tacit adult-centric and vision-based perspective. This …

This chapter examines evidence for a disorder of the intrinsic motive processes of the
purposeful self in autism spectrum disorder, which leads to weakening of shared experience …