It is often said that there are two types of psychological processes: one that is intentional,
controllable, conscious, and inefficient, and another that is unintentional, uncontrollable …

Cognitive control (with the closely related concepts of attention control and executive
function) encompasses the collection of processes that are involved in generating and …

This article provides an update of the Theory of Event Coding (TEC), which claims that
perception and action are identical processes operating on the same codes–event files …

A new framework for the understanding of functional relationships between perception and
action is discussed. According to this framework, perceived events and planned actions …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 136 (6) of
Psychological Bulletin (see record 2010-20845-001). In the Online First Publication of the …

The effects of different types of instructions on complex motor skill learning were examined.
The instructions were related either to the participant's own body movements (internal focus) …

On its 43rd anniversary the Simon effect can look back at a long and varied history. First
treated as a curious observation with implications for human factors research, it slowly …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of irrelevant location information on
performance of visual choice-reaction tasks. We review empirical findings and theoretical …

Goals play a central role in human cognition. However, computational theories of learning
and decision-making often take goals as given. Here, we review key empirical findings …

Many different things are said to have meaning: people mean to do various things; tools and
other artifacts are meant for various things; people mean various things by using words and …