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| Research article summary (published 30 Oct 2002): |
Visuospatial abilities of chess players.
Full Abstract
The extent to which the acquisition of expertise in knowledge-rich domains, such as chess, can be influenced by general individual characteristics, such as intelligence, has remained unclear. Some previous studies with children have documented significant correlations between chess skill and performance on some psychometric tests, such as performance IQ. However, we found no evidence for a correlation between chess skill and visual memory ability in a group of adult chess players (N = 36, age = 28.4 years). This finding, together with other data in the literature, suggests that there is surprisingly little evidence that chess skill and visuospatial ability are associated in adults. Thus, visual memory ability, and perhaps visuospatial intelligence, may be relatively unimportant factors in the long-term acquisition of chess skill.
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Author/s: Waters, Andrew J (AJ); Gobet, Fernand (F); Leyden, Gerv (G);
Affiliation: Georgetown University, USA.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) (Br J Psychol), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Nov; vol 93 (issue Pt 4) : pp 557-65
Dates: Created 2003/01/09; Completed 2003/04/04; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12519534, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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