Is the premotor theory of attention essentially about pre-reflective intentionality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20402012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacek Bielas (0000-0001-9771-4162, Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow, corresponding author), Łukasz Michalczyk (0000-0002-3174-0832, Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 757-774 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-3543 • E-ISSN: 1461-7447 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0959354319834672 |
| OpenAlex | W2923668818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 40 |
The Premotor Theory of Attention (PToA) is a prominent, albeit controversial, modern experimental account of attentional processes. According to the PToA, motor preparation is both necessary and sufficient for spatial attention. Explaining the cognitive process of attention in terms of sensori-motor machinery can be considered as embedded in the idea of embodied cognition. The vocabulary adopted by the PToA seems to bear a particular resemblance to Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological notion of pre-reflective intentionality. He articulates it by means of directness towards the lived world, which is constituted in the spatial motility of the body-subject. In this epistemological state of affairs, we come up with two leading questions: (a) can the main tenets of PToA be essentially reconstructed in terms of the notion of pre-reflective intentionality and since the bodily motility is meant by the French phenomenologist to be at the root of all forms of intentionality, (b) can the PToA be expanded to account for all kinds of attention? In conclusion, we advocate a positive answer for the former question and point to serious doubts as to why it can rather not be retained regarding the latter
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Intentionality · Metaphysics · Philosophy of mind · Action Observation and Synchronization · Computer Science · Hallucinations in medical conditions · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |