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Contention scheduling

• decentralized, automatic control over local, domain-specific
processes
• evidence: capture errors, Lurias arithmetic problem

Supervisory attentional system (SAS)

• instantiates Luria’s (1969) idea of frontal function in information
processing terms:
• High level programming, regulation & verification of behavior

– centralized, limited capacity, high level control over local schemata
 novel situations
 willful action (e.g., over-ride of contention scheduling)
 coordinative function