Fernand Gobet
Encyclopedia
Fernand Gobet in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
) is a cognitive scientist and a cognitive psychologist, currently Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Brunel University
Brunel University
Brunel University is a public research university located in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom. The university is named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel....
. His research interests focus on the study of cognition, especially in the areas of cognitive architectures, perception, intuition
Intuition
Intuition may refer to:*Intuition , immediate a priori knowledge or experiential belief*Intuition , acquiring beliefs in ways that bypass ordinary justificationIn music:*Intuition...
, problem solving, learning and decision making. He has developed the CHREST
CHREST
CHREST is a symbolic cognitive architecture based on the concepts of limited attention, limited short-term memories, and chunking. Learning, which is essential in the architecture, is modelled as the development of a network of nodes which are connected in various ways...
cognitive architecture, an acronym for Chunk Hierarchy and REtrieval STructures, which is a complete architecture for the processes of learning and perception used by humans.
He is a chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
International Master, and played numerous times for the Swiss national team. He was co-editor of the Swiss Chess Review from 1981 to 1989. His Elo rating
Elo rating system
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor....
is 2400.
Books
- Gobet, F. (2011). Psychologie du talent et de l’expertise. Paris: De Boeck.
- Gobet, F., Chassy, P., & Bilalić, M. (2011). Foundations of cognitive psychology. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
- Gobet, F., de Voogt, A., & Retschitzki, J. (2004). Moves in mind - The psychology of board games.Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
- de Groot, A. & Gobet, F. (1996). Perception and memory in chess. Heuristics of the professional eye. Assen: Van Gorcum.
- Gobet, F. (1993). Les mémoires d'un joueur d'échecs. Fribourg (Switzerland): Editions Universitaires