Procedural control versus resources as potential origins of human hyper selectivity
- Author(s)
- Ulrich Ansorge, Christian Büsel, Moritz Stolte, Ulrich Pomper, Rebecca Rosa Schmid, Marlene Forstinger, Markus Grüner, Christian Valuch, Daniel Gugerell
- Abstract
In the current review, we argue that experimental results usually interpreted as evidence for cognitive resource limitations could also reflect functional necessities of human information processing. First, we point out that selective processing of only specific features, objects, or locations at each moment in time allows humans to monitor the success and failure of their own overt actions and covert cognitive procedures. We then proceed to show how certain instances of selectivity are at odds with commonly assumed resource limitations. Next, we discuss examples of seemingly automatic, resource-free processing that challenge the resource view but can be easily understood from the functional perspective of monitoring cognitive procedures. Finally, we suggest that neurophysiological data supporting resource limitations might actually reflect mechanisms of how procedural control is implemented in the brain.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, Research Platform Mediatised Lifeworlds: Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations
- External organisation(s)
- Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Journal
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Volume
- 12
- No. of pages
- 14
- ISSN
- 1664-1078
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.718141
- Publication date
- 07-2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501006 Experimental psychology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/procedural-control-versus-resources-as-potential-origins-of-human-hyper-selectivity(6f6818d7-968f-42a3-8116-53f7771cbbe8).html