Cyclical population dynamics of automatic versus controlled processing: An evolutionary pendulum

Psychological Review

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 626-642

  Rand, David G ^a   Tomlin, Damon ^b   Bear, Adam ^a   Ludvig, Elliot A ^c,d   Cohen, Jonathan D ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Cognitive control; Cognitive processing; Evolution; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 85023178142     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000079     Document Type: Article

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