The role of domain-specific practice, handedness, and starting age in chess

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 159-172

  Gobet, Fernand ^a   Campitelli, Guillermo ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chess; Critical period; Expertise; Handedness; Talent

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHILD; GAME; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; STATISTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; APTITUDE; CHILD; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS;

EID: 33846101166     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.1.159     Document Type: Article

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