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Few scientists today would argue against the notion that cognition is a factor in motor control. However, the extent of cognitive involvement is a crucial issue, separating present day schools of information processing in which cognition rules supreme from the ecological approach to action in which cognition is minimised (Turvey & Carello, 1981; Newell, in press). The present essay, given the title, is more clearly grounded in the cognitive camp. But, as the issues regarding the direct intervention of strategic cognitive-motor processing are addressed, some questions and problems raised by ecological advocates will be highlighted.
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Reid, G. (1986). The Trainability of Motor Processing Strategies with Developmentally Delayed Performers. In: Whiting, H.T.A., Wade, M.G. (eds) Themes in Motor Development. NATO ASI Series, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4462-6_5
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