Procedural control versus resources as potential origins of human hyper selectivity

Autor(en)

Ulrich Ansorge, Christian Büsel, Moritz Stolte, Ulrich Pomper, Rebecca Rosa Schmid, Marlene Forstinger, Markus Grüner, Christian Valuch, Daniel Gugerell

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden, Forschungsverbund Kognitionswissenschaft, Forschungsplattform Mediatisierte Lebenswelten: Die narrativen Konstruktionen, Verbindungen und Aneignungen Jugendlicher

Externe Organisation(en)

Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Journal

Frontiers in Psychology

Band

12

Anzahl der Seiten

14

ISSN

1664-1078

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.718141

Publikationsdatum

07-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501006 Experimentalpsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Psychologie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/6f6818d7-968f-42a3-8116-53f7771cbbe8