Expertise modulates the neural basis of context dependent recognition of objects and their relations.

ABSTRACT: Recognition of objects and their relations is necessary for orienting in real life. We examined cognitive processes related to recognition of objects, their relations, and the patterns they form by using the game of chess. Chess enables us to compare experts with novices and thus gain insight in the nature of development of recognition skills. Eye movement recordings showed that experts were generally faster than novices on a task that required enumeration of relations between chess objects because their extensive knowledge enabled them to immediately focus on the objects of interest. The advantage was less pronounced on random positions where the location of chess objects, and thus typical relations between them, was randomized. Neuroimaging data related experts' superior performance to t

SUBMITTER: Bilalic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6870017 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature