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SUMMARY:Practical intentions\, action schemas\, and strategic control in s
 kill - Ellen Fridland (King's College London)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:While much of skilled action happens 'under the radar' it is i
 mportant to acknowledge that a significant portion of skill also involves 
 good old-fashioned thinking. For instance\, there is no way to be a skille
 d tennis player\, if you don't know that you have to\, e.g.\, pick up the 
 racket and swing it towards a ball. But not all personal-level knowledge a
 bout skill is of this kind. In this talk\, I'll argue that skills are orga
 nized and structured by embodied\, strategic\, personal-level intentions t
 hat guide skill instantiations. These intentional structures\, on my accou
 nt\, are action schemas that function both to represent and guide skilled 
 action. Relying on the mental practice literature\, I'll maintain that ski
 lled agents uniquely possess strategic\, practical\, organizing intentions
  that guide their skilled actions in appropriate and effective ways. It fo
 llows that skilled agents are better than novices not only at implementing
  the intentions that they have but also at forming the right intentions. T
 hat is\, skilled agents have strategic control.
LOCATION:Zoom
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