Skill and strategic control

Abstract This paper provides an account of the strategic control involved in skilled action. When I discuss control, have mind practical goals, plans, and strategies that agents use order to specify, structure, organize their actions, which they learned through practice. The idea is are better than novices not only at implementing intentions but also forming right intentions. More specifically, able formulate modify, adjust adapt ways appropriate, effective, flexible given overall goals. Further, specify kind action plans I’ll rely on empirical evidence concerning mental practice imagery from sports psychology as well highlighting systematic differences cognitive representations skills between experts non-experts. claim that, together, this suggests structure actions theoretical, is, perceptual motor abstract, amodal, or linguistic. Importantly, despite grounded nature, these still personal-level, deliberate, rational states. That used best conceived higher-order, motor-modal structures, can be manipulated by agent for purpose reasoning, deliberation, decision-making and, course, actual online structuring organizing