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The Neuroscience of Expertise (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
Merim Bilalic
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paperback. The book examines the ways in which the brain accommodates the incredible feats of experts. Series: Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 58 b/w illus. 10 colour illus. BIC Classification: JMR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 530.
The Neuroscience of Expertise examines the ways in which the brain accommodates the incredible feats of experts. It builds on a tradition of cognitive research to explain how the processes of perception, attention, and memory come together to enable experts' outstanding performance. The text explains how the brain adapts to enable the complex cognitive machinery behind expertise, and provides a unifying framework to illuminate the seemingly unconnected performance of experts in different domains. Whether it is a radiologist who must spot a pathology in a split second, a chess grandmaster who finds the right path in a jungle of possible ... Read more
The Neuroscience of Expertise examines the ways in which the brain accommodates the incredible feats of experts. It builds on a tradition of cognitive research to explain how the processes of perception, attention, and memory come together to enable experts' outstanding performance. The text explains how the brain adapts to enable the complex cognitive machinery behind expertise, and provides a unifying framework to illuminate the seemingly unconnected performance of experts in different domains. Whether it is a radiologist who must spot a pathology in a split second, a chess grandmaster who finds the right path in a jungle of possible ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology
Condition
New
Weight
530g
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107446519
SKU
V9781107446519
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Ref
99-16
About Merim Bilalic
Merim Bilalić is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Northumbria University, Newcastle. He received his DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, and has subsequently held research and teaching positions at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Brunel University, Eberhard- Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany and Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. His research on problem-solving biases in experts won the Award for the Outstanding Doctoral ... Read more
Reviews for The Neuroscience of Expertise (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
'The first comprehensive treatment of this area of research, The Neuroscience of Expertise is an invaluable resource for students of expertise, whatever the level, and will push forward scientific understanding of a topic long of interest to psychologists and laypeople alike.' David Z. Hambrick, The British Journal of Psychology '… very well written and reader-friendly … [it] provides undergraduates, among ... Read more