Mathematical expertise: the role of domain-specific knowledge for memory and creativity.

ABSTRACT: In contrast to traditional expertise domains like chess and music, very little is known about the cognitive mechanisms in broader, more education-oriented domains like mathematics. This is particularly true for the role of mathematical experts' knowledge for domain-specific information processing in memory as well as for domain-specific and domain-general creativity. In the present work, we compared 115 experts in mathematics with 109 gender, age, and educational level matched novices in their performance in (a) a newly developed mathematical memory task requiring encoding and recall of structured and unstructured information and (b) tasks drawing either on mathematical or on domain-general creativity. Consistent with other expertise domains, experts in mathematics (compared to novices) sh

SUBMITTER: Meier MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10397219 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature