Robert Gaschler

TL;DR: Analysis of tournament performance data of 1383 chess players who begin competing at young age and play tournaments for at least 10 years shows that the skill acquisition theories implying a negative exponential learning curve do a better job in both describing early performance gains and predicting later trajectories of chess performance than those theories imply a power function learning curve.

TL;DR: It is argued that explicit expectation feeds into preparatory processes instead of being a mere by-product, as demonstrated by experimentally teasing apart demands for preparation and explicit expectations.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the discussion held in explicit memory research about different forms of representation of sequences knowledge also is relevant for implicit sequence learning.

TL;DR: Results support the view that participants acquire knowledge about order structure (item- item associations) and about ordinal structure (serial position-item associations), and indicate that serial list position information plays a role very early in learning and that inter-item Associations increasingly control behavior in later stages.

TL;DR: It is suggested that susceptibility to temptation is governed in part byindividual differences in salience network dynamics and novel evidence for involvement of brain systems outside canonical cognitive control networks in contributing to individual differences in self-control is provided.