How experts' adaptations to representative task demands account for the expertise effect in memory recall: Comment on Vicente and Wang (1998)

Psychological Review

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 578-592

  Ericsson, K Anders ^c   Patel, Vimla ^b   Kintsch, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034219077     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.107.3.578     Document Type: Review

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