Motivation and Movements of the Mind

In this critical response, I begin with the positive features of Movements of the Mind , especially the flexibility and utility of Wu's account of attention and agency. I then focus my discussion on the relative absence of motivation and interaction in the account. Just as we cannot explain the motivating power of pain or emotions without understanding the role of attention and bias (a feature that makes MoM so useful), we also cannot fully understand attention and bias without understanding the role of motivation in driving human behaviour.