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dc.contributor.author | Gobet, F | - |
dc.contributor.author | Campitelli, G | - |
dc.coverage.spatial | 47 | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-02-16T11:02:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2007-02-16T11:02:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Developmental Psychology, 43, 159-172. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.apa.org/journals/dev/ | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/611 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The respective roles of the environment and innate talent have been a recurrent question for research into expertise. This paper investigates markers of talent, environment, and critical period for the acquisition of expert performance in chess. Argentinian chessplayers (N = 104), ranging from weak amateurs to grandmasters, filled in a questionnaire measuring variables including individual and group practice, starting age, and handedness. The study reaffirms the importance of practice for reaching high levels of performance, but also indicates a large variability, the slower player needing eight times more practice to reach master level than the faster. Additional results show a correlation between skill and starting age, and indicate that players are more likely to be mixed-handed than individuals in the general population; however, there was no correlation between handedness and skill within the chess sample. Together, these results suggest that practice is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the acquisition of expertise, that some additional factors may differentiate between chessplayers and non-chessplayers, and that the starting age of practice is important. | en |
dc.format.extent | 200741 bytes | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | American Psychological Association | en |
dc.subject | Chess | en |
dc.subject | Critical period | en |
dc.subject | Domain-specific practice | en |
dc.subject | Expertise | en |
dc.subject | Handedness | en |
dc.subject | Talent | en |
dc.subject | Deliberate practice | - |
dc.subject | Ericsson | - |
dc.title | The role of domain-specific practice, handedness and starting age in chess | en |
dc.type | Research Paper | en |
Appears in Collections: | Psychology Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
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