Attention And Cognitive Control 1

🤖 Plain-English Summary

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.

🔑 Key Findings

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

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