Jim
It sounds just like it came out of the book entitled "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer. I know he speak of chess players and the same situation in this book.
A very similar article was in the NY Times by him.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/20/magazine/mind-secrets.htmlhttp://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything/dp/159420229X
Scott Eidson
UNC School of Dentistry
Jim Sibley wrote:
>Hi Everyone
>
>I read an interesting article on vacation....unfortunately my rule
about not
>working on vacation sometimes gets bent....I did NOT record the source
>
>DOES ANYONE KNOW THIS ARTICLE?
>
>The article compared novice and expert chess players and found that both
>could remember about the same number of pieces of information BUT the
>experts remember bigger, better contextualized chunks....I think the
article
>had two authours....that's all I got
>
>Sound familiar to anyone???
>
>Much appreciated
>
>Jim
>
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