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Experts and Expert Systems

The study of expertise covers remarkably diverse domains, such as sports, chess, music, medicine, and the arts and sciences, and examines the entire range of mastery from beginners to world-class performer.… Very high levels of achievement in virtually all domains are mediated by mechanisms acquired during an extended period of training and development.

K. A. Ericsson2005

INTRODUCTION

In the previous chapters in this section we have discussed the processes involved in attention, memory, and thought, with a special emphasis on how people are limited in their ability to process information. In Chapter 9, we discussed the limited capacity that people have for attending to multiple sources of information. In ...

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