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Low executive demand is a predicted and empirically testable property of the configuration, not a definitional one. Eleven directional falsifiable predictions are set out, with six control conditions in two families, most of them testable with standard laboratory equipment. DPSA is presented as an as-yet unvalidated theoretical model: no empirical data are reported, and none of its mechanistic claims have yet been tested. 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