Dima,
Yes, they were in the same field as George Miller (psychology). But they also
hung out with enough neuroscientists that some of the blood and guts rubbed off
on them. Right now, the major research on the topic depends on neuroscience.
That is one among many reasons why I prefer to use
Doug,
The central executive controls all the processes that are controllable by the
human ego. But the term 'executive' should be considered the equivalent of
what the chief executive officer (CEO) of a business does in managing a
corporation. There are intermediaries at various points.
Doug,
The central executive was proposed by the neuroscientists Baddeley & Hitch, not
by AI researchers. There is nothing "machine-like" in the idea, by itself.
Without something like it, there is no way to explain how a huge tangle of
neurons could act together and coordinate their efforts
