Executive System
<p class="default">07:29 PM, August 07, 2007</p>
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see Wiki entry.</p>
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Executive System according to E. Goldberg (a disciple of Alexander Luria) is the metaphor of the prefrontal cortex
PFC as an orchestra director and the cortex as the front rows.</p>
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Psychologists  <u>Don Norman </wiki/Don_Norman></u> and  <u>Tim Shallice </wiki/Tim_Shallice></u> have outlined five types of situation where routine activation of behavior would not be sufficient for optimal performance  <u>[4]</u> :
Those that involve  <b>planning or decision making</b> .
Those that involve  <b>error correction or troubleshooting</b> .
Situations where responses are  <b> not well-learned or contain novel sequences of actions</b> .
<b>Dangerous or technically difficult situations</b> .
<b>Situations which require the overcoming of a strong habitual response or resisting temptation</b> .
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