Abstract
This Research Topic sought to advance psychological understanding of expertise by drawing together lines of research from many different domains of expertise. The outcome is a collection of 35 articles in such diverse areas as chess, music, perception, teaching, intensive-care diagnosis, video-games, sports, dance, mathematics, climbing, and fingerprint analysis.
The articles can be classed into five broad categories based on their focus: (a) the cognitive processes in expertise, (b) the development of expertise, (c) the relationship between expertise and general cognition, (d) the transfer of skills between domains, and (e) methodological issues and frameworks in expertise research. We give a brief overview of the research across these five themes.
The articles can be classed into five broad categories based on their focus: (a) the cognitive processes in expertise, (b) the development of expertise, (c) the relationship between expertise and general cognition, (d) the transfer of skills between domains, and (e) methodological issues and frameworks in expertise research. We give a brief overview of the research across these five themes.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 00258 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Psychology |
| Volume | 6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 10 Mar 2015 |
Keywords
- Deliberate practice
- Expert cognitive processes
- Expert performance
- Expertise
- Skill acquisition
- Skill transfer
- Training