The Benefits and Perils of Attentional Control
The Benefits and Perils of Attentional Control
This chapter focuses on investigating the benefits and disadvantages of attentional control. It reviews scientific investigatons undertaken in this field across a wide range of tasks involving problem solving, category learning, and language learning, among others, the findings of which reveal that, sometimes, less executive attention plays a key role in better planning. Individuals with a good memory are able to focus more on a given task, finding an effective solution to the problem, while those with a worse memory gather information from different sources and concentrate on finding simpler solutions to the given problem. The investigations also reveal that individuals need to have more analytical skills to test different features of a given object and learn about its category, applying executive attention in an effective manner.
Keywords: attentional control, category learning, language learning, investigation, executive attention
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