Perception in chess and beyond: Commentary on Linhares and Freitas (2010)

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 156-161

  Lane, Peter C R ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogy; Chunking; Cognitive models; Cognitive psychology; Memory; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79651470263     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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