Goal neglect and knowledge chunking in the construction of novel behaviour☆

Highlights • Fluid intelligence links closely to goal neglect in novel behaviour.• Neglect increases strongly with task complexity.• The task complexity effect is bounded by task-subtask structure.• We argue that complex behaviour is controlled in a series of attentional episodes.• A new account of fluid intelligence is based on episode construction.

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