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Human behavior is remarkably flexible. An individual who drives the same route to work each day easily adjusts for a traffic jam or to pick up lunch. Any theory of human cognition must explain not only routine behavior, but how behavior is flexibly modulated by the current environment and goals. In this extended abstract, we discuss this ability, often referred to as cognitive control.
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Mozer, M.C. (2006). Rational Models of Cognitive Control. In: Calude, C.S., Dinneen, M.J., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Stepney, S. (eds) Unconventional Computation. UC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11839132_2
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