Searching for answers: expert pattern recognition and planning
Fernand R. Gobet, Andrew J. Waters · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2023
Does expertise mostly stem from pattern recognition or look-ahead search? van Opheusden et al. contribute to this important debate in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence (AI) with a multi-method, multi-experiment study and a new model. Using a novel, relatively simple board game, they show that players increase depth of search when improving their skill.