Templates in Chess Memory: A Mechanism for Recalling Several Boards

1996/08/01 by Fernand Gobet, Herbert A. Simon · 621 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Chunking (psychology) #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Free recall #Long-term memory #Natural language processing #Psychology #Ranking (information retrieval) #Recall #Serial position effect #Short-term memory #Sport Psychology and Performance #Sports Analytics and Performance #Term (time) #Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes #Working memory

paper · open access · doi:10.1006/cogp.1996.0011

published in Cognitive Psychology 31(1), 1-40 (Elsevier BV)

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