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Motor Intentions: How Intentions and Motor Representations Come Together
Author(s) -
Brozzo Chiara
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/mila.12140
Subject(s) - action (physics) , psychology , set (abstract data type) , representation (politics) , cognitive psychology , subject (documents) , cognitive science , social psychology , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , library science , political science , law , programming language
What are the most detailed descriptions under which subjects intend to perform bodily actions? According to Pacherie (2006), these descriptions may be found by looking into motor representations—action representations in the brain that determine the movements to be performed. Specifically, for any motor representation guiding an action, its subject has an M‐intention representing that action in as much detail. I show that some M‐intentions breach the constraints that intentions should meet. I then identify a set of intentions— motor intentions —that represent actions in as much detail as some motor representations while meeting the constraints that intentions should meet.