Templates in chess memory: A mechanism for recalling several boards

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-40

  Gobet, Fernand ^b   Simon, Herbert A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL;

HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0030207961     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1996.0011     Document Type: Article

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