Attention And Cognitive Control 1

To what extent are our conscious intentions and strategies in control of the way information is processed in our minds? Both of these views need to be accommodated.

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• 1 This seems to be a question of importance to us both as psychologists and as human beings.
• 2 Yet as Shallice (1972) has pointed out, most theorists in psychology have avoided consideration of the relationship between conscious and unconscious mental events.
• 3 While psychological writers rarely deal with this distinction directly, the reader of psychological publications can hardly avoid it.

This research advances how AI systems learn, reason, and solve problems — with direct implications for automation and scientific discovery.

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