This book is the first to describe the new field of 'Motor Cognition' - one to which the author's contribution has been seminal. It examines how the motor actions we perform and watch others perform play a pivotal role in the construction of the 'self' - our ability to acknowledge and recognise our own identity.

This book gathers research findings from specialists in perceptual organisation, memory, attention, music psychology, neurospychology, and developmental psychology from Europe and North America. It will be useful to advanced students in the cognitive sciences and scientists specializing in many fields as well as in auditory psychology.

What do patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, insomnia, and schizophrenia have in common? This book proposes that these disorders share several important cognitive and behavioural processes. It argues that by studying what they have in common, we can find more effective methods of treatment.