Understanding Expertise

Fernand Gobet earned his PhD in psychology in 1992 at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. After collaborating with Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon for six years at Carnegie Mellon, he held academic positions at the University of Nottingham and Brunel University London. Since 2013, he is Professor of Decision Making and Expertise at the University of Liverpool. His main research interest is the psychology of expertise, which he studies in numerous domains including board games, physics, language acquisition and nursing. His research combines experimental methods with computational modelling. He has written nine books, including Foundations of Cognitive Psychology (2011).

• 1. Introduction2. Perception and Categorisation3. Memory4. Problem Solving5. Decision Making6. Intuition, Insight and Creativity7. Talent, Individual Differences and Gender Differences8. Learning and Education9. Development and Aging10. Neuroexpertise11. Experts and Society12. Sociology13. Philosophy14. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems15. Putting It All Together.