These basic elements of integrated behavior, interactive routines, occur over a time span of 1/3 to 3 seconds and are typically beneath the level of our conscious awareness and deliberate control.
Hence, non-deliberate forces that dynamically react to our task environment without our conscious awareness shape a large part of our mental life.
The Cognitive Science side focuses on the control of interactive behavior, resource allocation, dynamic decision making, memory, attention, and motor movement.
He spent a postdoctoral year with John R. Anderson's lab at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the AI Laboratory of NYNEX' Science & Technology Division.
In 2001 he was elected to a 6-year term on the board of governors for the Cognitive Science Society, where he served as chair and member of the executive committee from 2003 to 2006.