Expert vs. novice differences in the detection of relevant information during a chess game: evidence from eye movements.

ABSTRACT: The present study explored the ability of expert and novice chess players to rapidly distinguish between regions of a chessboard that were relevant to the best move on the board, and regions of the board that were irrelevant. Accordingly, we monitored the eye movements of expert and novice chess players, while they selected white's best move for a variety of chess problems. To manipulate relevancy, we constructed two different versions of each chess problem in the experiment, and we counterbalanced these versions across participants. These two versions of each problem were identical except that a single piece was changed from a bishop to a knight. This subtle change reversed the relevancy map of the board, such that regions that were relevant in one version of the board were now irrelevant

SUBMITTER: Sheridan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4142462 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature