Disorders of Volition

by Sebanz, Natalie; Prinz, Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9780262513425
• ISBN10: 0262513420
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-30
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

Science tries to understand human action from two perspectives, the cognitive and the volitional. The volitional approach, in contrast to the more dominant "outside-in" studies of cognition, looks at actions from the inside out, examining how actions are formed and informed by internal conditions. In Disorders of Volition, scholars from a range of disciplines seek to advance our understanding of the processes supporting voluntary action by addressing conditions in which the will is impaired. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing specific neurological and psychiatric conditions as disorders of volition. After presenting different conceptual frameworks that identify agency, decision making, and goal pursuit as central components of volition, the book examines how impairments in these and other aspects of volition manifest themselves in schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substance abuse. Contributors: George Ainslie, Tim Bayne, Antoine Bechara, Paul W. Burgess, Anna-Lisa Cohen, Daniel Dennett, Stephanie Dubal, Philippe Fossati, Chris Frith, Sam J. Gilbert, Peter Gollwitzer, Jordan Grafman, Patrick Haggard, Jay G. Hull, Marc Jeannerod, Roland Jouvent, Frank Krueger, Neil Levy, Peter F. Liddle, Kristen L. Mackiewitz, Thomas Metzinger, Jack B. Nitschke, Jiro Okuda, Adrian M. Owen, Chris Parry, Wolfgang Prinz, Joelle Proust, Michael A. Sayette, Werner X. Schneider, Natalie Sebanz, Jon S. Simons, Laurie B. Slone, Sean A. Spence A Bradford Book

Table of Contents

Toward a Science of Volition	p. 1
Conceptual Foundations
Conscious Volition and Mental Representation: Toward a More Fine-Grained Analysis	p. 19
The Feeling of Doing: Deconstructing the Phenomenology of Agency	p. 49
Conscious Intention and the Sense of Agency	p. 69
Agency in Schizophrenia from a Control Theory Viewpoint	p. 87
A Selectionist Model of the Ego: Implications for Self-Control	p. 119
If-Then Plans and the Intentional Control of Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions	p. 151
Disorders of Volition in Schizophrenia
From Volition to Agency: The Mechanism of Action Recognition and Its Failures	p. 175
Motivated Attention and Schizophrenia	p. 193
Schizophrenic Avolition: Implications from Functional and Structural Neuroimaging	p. 207
Interpersonal Factors in the Disorders of Volition Associated with Schizophrenia	p. 233
Disorders of Volition in Depression
Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Contributions to Volition in Depression	p. 251
Action Control and Its Failure in Clinical Depression: A Neurocognitive Theory	p. 275
The Cost of Pleasure: Effort and Cognition in Anhedonia and Depression	p. 307
Disorders of Volition in Patients with Prefrontal Lobe Damage
The Human Ventrolateral Frontal Cortex and Intended Action	p. 329
Volition and the Human Prefrontal Cortex	p. 347
Rostral Prefrontal Brain Regions (Area 10): A Gateway between Inner Thought and the External World?	p. 373
Disorders of Volition in Substance Abuse
Broken Willpower: Impaired Mechanisms of Decision Making and Impulse Control in Substance Abusers	p. 399
Craving, Cognition, and the Self-Regulation of Cigarette Smoking	p. 419
A Dynamic Model of the Will with an Application to Alcohol-Intoxicated Behavior	p. 439
List of Contributors	p. 457
Author Index	p. 459
Subject Index	p. 485
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