Intention, Emotion, and Action: A neural theory based on semantic pointers

Cognitive Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 851-880

  Schröder, Tobias ^a   Stewart, Terrence C ^a   Thagard, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action; Automatic; Deliberative; Emotion; Implementation intentions; Intention; Neural engineering framework; Planning; Semantic pointers

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; EMOTION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

BRAIN; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84903821421     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12100     Document Type: Article

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