The neural organization of perception in chess experts

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 499, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 64-69

  Krawczyk, Daniel C ^a,b   Boggan, Amy L ^a   McClelland, M Michelle ^a   Bartlett, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chess; Expertise; Face processing; FMRI; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION;

ADULT; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959372868     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.05.033     Document Type: Article

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