Goal neglect and knowledge chunking in the construction of novel behaviour

Cognition

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-30

  Bhandari, Apoorva ^a   Duncan, John ^a,b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chunking; Cognitive control; Goal neglect; Intelligence; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GOAL NEGLECT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84886934503     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.013     Document Type: Article

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