The Intentional Paradigm and Cognitive Psychophysiology

Abstract

Applications of cognitive and non-cognitive mediational models in psychophysiology are reviewed, and a case is presented for considering pre-attentive intentionality of the subject as a determining factor in response formation.A paradigm shift away from the S-R causal contingency approach, which structures stimulus and response as discrete and separable events, is proposed. An alternative acausal RS approach which integrates production of stimulus and response as a manifestation of subjects' intentional behavior is su^^ed. According to this model, 'psychic' and 'somatic' activities are linked in common expression of episodic intentional skills developed by the subject.Psychophysiological measures recorded within one such RS paradigm are illustrated, and some method-olt^cal and conceptual implications of adopting a cognitive psychophysiological paradigm are discussed.

Voluntary stimulus production enhances deviance processing in the brain

“…In everyday life, however, humans often get information by voluntary action. Although the significance of recording brain activity during this "interactive" situation has been suggested by several researchers (O'Connor, 1981;Papakostopoulos, 1980;Schafer and Marcus, 1973), few studies have examined how stimulus processing is modulated by voluntary production of stimuli.…”