Entanglement of perception and reasoning in the combinatorial game of chess: Differential errors of strategic reconstruction

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 72-86

  Linhares, Alexandre ^a,c   Freitas, Anna Elizabeth T A ^a   Mendes, Alexandre ^b   Silva, Jarbas S ^a  

^a FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c Rämistrasse 18 8001   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive psychology; Combinatorial games; Decision making; Perception; Strategic thought

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; COMBINATORIAL GAME; PERFECT RECONSTRUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; STRATEGIC THOUGHT;

DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTS; GAME THEORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ERRORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION TREE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80255126133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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