Mechanisms of skill acquisition and the law of practice

The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance

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Dimensions of Consumer Expertise

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Acquisition of cognitive skill

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Toward an instance theory of automatization.

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SOAR: An Architecture for General Intelligence

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The restless mind

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Contextual Cueing: Implicit Learning and Memory of Visual Context Guides Spatial Attention

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Default Bayes factors for ANOVA designs

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On Distinguishing Epistemic from Pragmatic Action

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Challenge Point: A Framework for Conceptualizing the Effects of Various Practice Conditions in Motor Learning

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On the anglocentricities of current reading research and practice: The perils of overreliance on an “outlier” orthography.

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Identity, deep structure and the development of leadership skill

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Sequencing in SLA: Phonological Memory, Chunking, and Points of Order

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Replication and Analysis of Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve

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Motor Skill Acquisition

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Learning from worked-out examples: A study on individual differences

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Developmental change in speed of processing during childhood and adolescence

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Implementation intentions and efficient action initiation.

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Learning-induced autonomy of sensorimotor systems

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“Learning factors analysis-a general method for cognitive model evaluation and improvement,”

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Language Acquisition as Rational Contingency Learning

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Maintaining excellence: Deliberate practice and elite performance in young and older pianists.

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Attention and automaticity in the processing of self-relevant information.

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Synthetic grammar learning: Implicit rule abstraction or explicit fragmentary knowledge?

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Interactive Team Cognition

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The problems of flexibility, fluency, and speed-accuracy trade-off in skilled behavior

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BEYOND EXPLICIT RULE LEARNING: Automatizing Second Language Morphosyntax

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An instance theory of attention and memory.

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What determines initial feeling of knowing? Familiarity with question terms, not with the answer.

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Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Second Language Fluency

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Preparing to resume an interrupted task: effects of prospective goal encoding and retrospective rehearsal

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The information-loss model: a mathematical theory of age-related cognitive slowing

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Training in Self-Explanation and Self-Regulation Strategies: Investigating the Effects of Knowledge Acquisition Activities on Problem Solving

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Task-Based Core-Periphery Organization of Human Brain Dynamics

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Effects of video-game play on information processing: a meta-analytic investigation

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Understanding changes in mental workload during execution of goal-directed tasks and its application for interruption management

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A neurobiological theory of automaticity in perceptual categorization

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Basal Ganglia Circuits for Reward Value–Guided Behavior

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The mental cost of cognitive enhancement

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Integration as a general boundary condition on retrieval-induced forgetting.

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Taking aim at the cognitive side of learning in sensorimotor adaptation tasks

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Bending the power law: A CMPL theory of strategy shifts and the automatization of cognitive skills.

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Working memory training involves learning new skills

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20 years later: deliberate practice and the development of expertise in sport

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Practice makes perfect: entrepreneurial-experience curves and venture performance

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A Three–Part Framework for Self–Regulated Personality Development across Adulthood

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Exploring links between polychronicity and well-being from the perspective of person–job fit: Does it matter if you prefer to do only one thing at a time?

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Supporting Novice to Expert Transitions in User Interfaces

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Timecourse of recovery from task interruption: Data and a model

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Perspectives on problem solving and instruction

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Understanding the benefits of providing peer feedback: how students respond to peers’ texts of varying quality

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Overconfidence among beginners: Is a little learning a dangerous thing?

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Strengthened effective connectivity underlies transfer of working memory training to tests of short-term memory and attention

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Leveraging characteristics of task structure to predict the cost of interruption

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Brain–behavior relationships: evidence from practice effects in spatial stimulus-response compatibility

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Toward an explanation of the power law artifact: Insights from response surface analysis

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Artifactual power curves in forgetting

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Improving command selection with CommandMaps

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Evidence against conflict monitoring and adaptation: An updated review

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Dips and ceilings: understanding and supporting transitions to expertise in user interfaces

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The acquisition of robust and flexible cognitive skills.

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A deliberate practice account of typing proficiency in everyday typists.

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Goal-directed control and its antipodes

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The power law as an emergent property

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Extending the Competition Model

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The case of the vanishing frequency effect: A retest of the verification model.

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Sex hormones and mental rotation: an intensive longitudinal investigation.

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VI. NIH toolbox cognition battery (CB): measuring processing speed

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Detecting Learning Moment-by-Moment

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Power laws from individual differences in learning and forgetting: Mathematical analyses

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A multilevel model analysis of expertise in chess across the life span.

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Multifaceted aspects of chunking enable robust algorithms

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The acquisition of a linguistic skill by adults: Procedural and declarative memory interact in the learning of an artificial morphological rule

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Testing the robustness and performance of spatially consistent interfaces

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Location Coding in Chess

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Unified Theories of Cognition and the Role of Soar

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The growth of software skill: a longitudinal look at learning & performance

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Learning, Forgetting, and Relearning for Keystroke- and Mouse-Driven Tasks: Relearning Is Important

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Theoretical Models of Training and Transfer Effects

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