Understanding Expertise: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach - Softcover

Gobet, Fernand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230276245 ISBN 13: 9780230276246

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2015

Synopsis

What makes an expert? Do gifted children really exist? How do musicians differ from non-musicians? In exploring questions like these, Gobet provides a comprehensive overview of the field of expertise. With research from psychology, neuroscience, sociology, artificial intelligence and philosophy, this is the best possible guide to the subject.

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Review:

Understanding Expertise is beyond doubt the most comprehensive single-authored book devoted to how expertise permeates human performance in a diversity of domains. It has the breadth of an edited handbook, but with the added asset of a coherent point of view.' - Professor Dean Keith Simonton, University of California, Davis, USA

'Fernand Gobet, who is well-known as one of the world's leading authorities on expertise, has produced an excellent overview of the area in this book. Of special note is the impressive way he has integrated ideas and research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, sociology, artificial intelligence and philosophy.' - Professor Michael Eysenck, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

'Fernand Gobet has been studying expertise for decades. And it is fascinating to read a book that attempts to synthesize all that expertise on expertise, not just within his own field of psychology, but across multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, sociology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy.If only more researchers were willing to take this truly multi-disciplinary and open approach to science, science would, I believe, be much better for it.' - Dr Jonathan Wai, Duke University, USA

About the Author:

Fernand Gobet earned his PhD in psychology in 1992 at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. After collaborating with Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon for six years at Carnegie Mellon, he held academic positions at the University of Nottingham and Brunel University London. Since 2013, he is Professor of Decision Making and Expertise at the University of Liverpool. His main research interest is the psychology of expertise, which he studies in numerous domains including board games, physics, language acquisition and nursing. His research combines experimental methods with computational modelling. He has written nine books, including Foundations of Cognitive Psychology (2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0230276245
• ISBN 13: 9780230276246
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328