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  1. See Bratman’s 1999 theory of intention for a similar account. Bratman emphasizes that settling on an intention prompts further practical reasoning for figuring out the means required for achieving that intention.

  2. For more about how skill refinement is related to technique, see Fridland and Moore 2015; Fridland 2013a, b, 2018.

  3. For more on deliberate practice, see Ericsson et al. 1993; Montero 2016; Fridland 2019; Stichter 2018, Fridland and Stichter, submitted.

  4. See Sutton and Barto 1998, and, for instance, Cushman 2013 for more on reinforcement learning and how to understand model free v. model-based learning processes.

  5. Feltz and Landers 1983; Driskell 1994; Guillot et al. 2009; Hanakawa 2003, 2008; Kosslyn et al. (2006); Madan 2012; Schack et al. 2014.

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Fridland, E. Skill’s Psychological Structures. Ethic Theory Moral Prac 24, 555–562 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-020-10132-w

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