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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Gen. 2010 Nov;139(4):590–609. doi: 10.1037/a0020666

Figure 1.

Figure 1

One possible subgoal hierarchy for the lexical search task. The primary goal is to find 30 words across multiple letter sets. Branches of the tree represent possible subgoals for activation in working memory. Individuals start with the top level goal and make decisions between alternative subgoals to search the problem space.