Humans have to coordinate many different inputs to generate a goal-directed output. Although it seems trivial that we can execute most actions in our everyday life effortlessly - it is not. Several independent processes merge to produce seemingly trivial looking actions. In research on human action control, the processes of binding and retrieval have received increased interest in recent years. In this context, a unified account emerged that strives to specify binding and retrieval in action control (BRAC) over a range of related experimental phenomena and paradigms (Frings et al., 2020). In the first symposium, we take a broad look at research that demonstrates the far reach of action control. The interconnection between learning and action control processes is investigated in two talks regarding performance feedback and associative learning. The following talk is concerned with the role of action control in the auditory domain, specifically in music. The talk after this presents findings on the role of binding and retrieval processes in the context of task switching. The final talk looks at the neural correlates of action control. The contributions presented in both symposia underline the diversity of the research areas investigating human action control and highlight the prominent role of binding and retrieval processes for moving forward in understanding goal-directed human action.