Expertise and age effects on knowledge activation in chess

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 401-405

  Jastrzembski, Tiffany S ^a   Charness, Neil ^a   Vasyukova, Catherine ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Age; Anticipation; Check; Chess; Expertise; Knowledge; Mitigation; Pattern recognition; Skill; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEISURE; PLAY; RESPONSE TIME; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 33747036096     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.401     Document Type: Article

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