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On the need for conscious control and conceptual understanding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Stuart Marcovitch  and
Philip David Zelazo
Stuart Marcovitch
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada stuartm@psych.utoronto.cazelazo@psych.utoronto.ca www.psych.utoronto.ca/~zelazo
Philip David Zelazo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada stuartm@psych.utoronto.cazelazo@psych.utoronto.ca www.psych.utoronto.ca/~zelazo
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Abstract

The dynamic systems approach simulates a wide range of effects and generates novel predictions, but it fails to explain age-related behavioral changes in psychological terms. We argue that the roles of conscious control and explicit knowledge must be addressed in any model of A-not-B performance, and a fortiori, in any model of goal-directed action.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 48 - 49
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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