The geometry of expertise

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Leone, María J ^a,b   Slezak, Diego Fernandez ^a   Cecchi, Guillermo A ^c   Sigman, Mariano ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Chess expertise; Chunks; Object representation; Spatial proximity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897637072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00047     Document Type: Article

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