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The Central Executive as a Search Process: Priming Exploration and Exploitation across Domains
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Hills, Thomas T.; Todd, Peter M.; Goldstone, Robert L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
The trade-off between exploration and exploitation is common to a wide variety of problems involving search in space and mind. The prevalence of this trade-off and its neurological underpinnings led us to propose domain-general cognitive search processes (Hills, Todd, & Goldstone, 2008). We propose further that these are consistent with the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Priming, Problem Solving, Goal Orientation