They do what they are told to do: The influence of instruction on (chess) expert perception-commentary on Linhares and Brum (2007)

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 743-747

  Bilalić, Merim ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogy; Chess; Chunking; Expertise; Human experimentation; Memory; Pattern recognition; Perception; Representation; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953200509     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01046.x     Document Type: Article

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