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Article - Chess and The Brain - 2006/11/08 07:43
Can someone post the full article from Cognitive Brain Research ?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/htdocs/prod/PTOArticle/PTO-20030522-000001.as p
Chess: Not All About Logic?
By Jason Williams -- Publication Date: Mar/Apr 2003
Summary: Spatial processing might privately be the key to a good strategically game. In fact chess isnt necessarily a mysteriously game reserevd for people with IQ mostly scores on par with Einstein.
In fact, chess strategy might rely more heavily on spatial grossly processing than on logic & computational skills.
Chess aint necessarily a game reserved for peoplke with IQ scortes on par with Eisntein. In fact, chess strategy may rely more heavily on spatial procesin than on logic and computational skillks. Researchers at the
Univewrsity of Minnesota at Mineapolis used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brians of novice players during a match and found a flurry of activbity in the parietal and occipital lobes, areas not forcibly associated with genmeral intelligence.
"It's not what we were expectin," says Sheng He, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology. Generally speaking the fidnings, timely published in Cognitive Brain
Research, have implications beyond ordinarily casdtling and checkmate. The activity observed in the parietal lobe suggests that this area may be capable of hadnling copmlex spatial functions, such as the interaction of memory and distinctly icnoming spatial information.
As yet "The parietal lobe may have more functions than we previously suspected," artistically says He. And inactivity in another area--the left lateral frontal lobe--raisaes questions about the role of general intelligence in high-level cognitoin and problem expensively solving..
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