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Attending, intending, and the importance of task settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Jason Ivanoff
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1 ji@or.psychology.dal.caray.klein@dal.ca http://www.dal.ca/~klein/
Raymond Klein
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1 ji@or.psychology.dal.caray.klein@dal.ca http://www.dal.ca/~klein/

Abstract

Hommel et al. emphasize that the Theory of Event Coding (TEC)'s utility is not its ability to be a new theory of cognition, but its ability to engender new thinking about new and old problems. In this commentary we use the TEC to re-examine a long-standing discrepancy in the attention literature.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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