The cinderella of psychology - The neglect of motor control in the science of mental life and behavior
The cinderella of psychology - The neglect of motor control in the science of mental life and behavior
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DOI：
10.1037/0003-066x.60.4.308
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发表时间：
2005-05-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
Rosenbaum, DA
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作者：
Rosenbaum, DA
人们会期望心理学--精神生活和行为的科学--把重点放在精神生活的行为表达上。然而，令人惊讶的是，运动控制研究的焦点--决策是如何制定的--却很少受到心理学的关注。这篇文章记录了这种忽视，并考虑了可能的原因。考虑的假设包括三个被提出然后被拒绝的假设：（a）没有著名的心理学家研究运动控制，（B）认知心理学家主要对人类独特的功能感兴趣，（c）运动控制太难研究了。其他三个假设更可行：（d）认知心理学家对认识论的兴趣大于对行动的兴趣;（e）心理学家不赞成运动控制，因为外显反应是行为主义中唯一可接受的测量方法;（f）心理学家认为神经科学家在运动控制研究方面已经垄断了市场。有迹象表明，运动控制的灰姑娘地位正在改变。
One would expect psychology-the science of mental life and behavior-to place great emphasis on the means by which mental life is behaviorally expressed. Surprisingly, however, the study of how decisions are enacted-the focus of motor control research-has received little attention in psychology. This article documents the neglect and considers possible reasons for it. The hypotheses considered include three that are raised and then rejected: (a) no famous psychologists have studied motor control, (b) cognitive psychologists are mainly interested in uniquely human functions, and (c) motor control is simply too hard to study. Three other hypotheses are more viable: (d) cognitive psychologists have been more interested in epistemology than in action, (e) psychologists have disfavored motor control because overt responses were the only admissible measure in behaviorism, and (f) psychologists have felt that neuroscientists have the market cornered when it comes to motor control research. There are signs that motor control's Cinderella status is changing.