Psychophysiology, psychological theory, and the study of skilled psychomotor performance

Abstract/Summary As a scientific discipline, psychophysiology may make relevant contributions to both the psychological and biological sciences, putting together new knowledge about humans as integrated sociobiological individuals. This ambitious task implies an integration of psychophysiological concepts, such as those proposed in cognitive psychology. The present article claims that a theoretically oriented psychophysiology may make much more relevant scientific contributions than a generic correlational approach referring, as correlations often do, to loose concepts such as "non specific arousal", specific activation processes, "learning", etc., without reference to current developments in psychological and neurophysiological knowledge, to explain relations between dependent and independent variables.