Goal neglect and knowledge chunking in the construction of novel behaviour☆

•Fluid intelligence links closely to goal neglect in novel behaviour.•Neglect increases strongly with task complexity.•The task complexity effect is bounded by task-subtask structure.•We argue that complex behaviour is controlled in a series of attentional episodes.•A new account of fluid intelligen...

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Main Authors: Bhandari, Apoorva, Duncan, John
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3857602/