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Disorders of Volition

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ISBN-10: 0262195402

ISBN-13: 9780262195409

Edition: 2006

Authors: Natalie Sebanz, Wolfgang Prinz

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Science tries to understand human action from two perspectives, the cognitive and the volitional. The volitional approach, in contrast to the more dominant "outside-in" studies of cognition, looks at actions from the inside out, examining how actions are formed and informed by internal conditions. In Disorders of Volition, scholars from a range of disciplines seek to advance our understanding of the processes supporting voluntary action by addressing conditions in which the will is impaired. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing…    
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Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 504
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Natalie Sebanz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Rutgers University.

Wolfgang Prinz is Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science in Leipzig, and the author of Open Minds: The Social Making of Agency and Intentionality (MIT Press, 2012).

Toward a Science of Volition
Conceptual Foundations
Conscious Volition and Mental Representation: Toward a More Fine-Grained Analysis
The Feeling of Doing: Deconstructing the Phenomenology of Agency
Conscious Intention and the Sense of Agency
Agency in Schizophrenia from a Control Theory Viewpoint
A Selectionist Model of the Ego: Implications for Self-Control
If-Then Plans and the Intentional Control of Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
Disorders of Volition in Schizophrenia
From Volition to Agency: The Mechanism of Action Recognition and Its Failures
Motivated Attention and Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic Avolition: Implications from Functional and Structural Neuroimaging
Interpersonal Factors in the Disorders of Volition Associated with Schizophrenia
Disorders of Volition in Depression
Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Contributions to Volition in Depression
Action Control and Its Failure in Clinical Depression: A Neurocognitive Theory
The Cost of Pleasure: Effort and Cognition in Anhedonia and Depression
Disorders of Volition in Patients with Prefrontal Lobe Damage
The Human Ventrolateral Frontal Cortex and Intended Action
Volition and the Human Prefrontal Cortex
Rostral Prefrontal Brain Regions (Area 10): A Gateway between Inner Thought and the External World?
Disorders of Volition in Substance Abuse
Broken Willpower: Impaired Mechanisms of Decision Making and Impulse Control in Substance Abusers
Craving, Cognition, and the Self-Regulation of Cigarette Smoking
A Dynamic Model of the Will with an Application to Alcohol-Intoxicated Behavior
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index