Human perception and action are tailored to the situation at hand, and thus reflect the current intentions of the perceiver/actor. We suggest that this is achieved by an "intentional-weighting" mechanism. It operates on the cognitive representations of the features of perceived events and produced event-perceptions and actions that is. Intention- or goal-related feature dimensions are weighted more strongly, so that feature values defined on the respective dimension have a stronger impact on information processing, and stimulus and response selection in particular. This article discusses what intentional weighting is, how such a mechanism may work, and how it relates to available research on attention, action planning, and executive control. © 2012 The Author(s).
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Memelink, J., & Hommel, B. (2013, May 1). Intentional weighting: A basic principle in cognitive control. Psychological Research. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-012-0435-y
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