Skilled Guidance
Résumé
Skilled action typically requires that individuals guide their activities toward
some goal. In skilled action, individuals do so excellently. We do not understand well
what this capacity to guide consists in. In this paper I provide a case study of how
individuals shift visual attention. Their capacity to guide visual attention toward some
goal (partly) consists in an empirically discovered sub-system – the executive system. I
argue that we can explain how individuals guide by appealing to the operation of this
sub-system. Understanding skill and skilled action will therefore require appreciating the
role of the executive system.
Domaines
PhilosophieOrigine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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