Does playing blindfold chess reduce the quality of game: Comments on Chabris and Hearst (2003)

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Jeremic, Veljko ^a   Vukmirovic, Dragan ^a   Radojicic, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Expertise; Pattern recognition; Problem solving; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953187815     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01086.x     Document Type: Article

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