Analysieren, Entscheiden, Handeln: Funktionelle Bildgebung kognitiver Prozesse beim Schachspiel

• Applicant: Privatdozent Dr. Merim Bilalic
• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
• Term: from 2006 to 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 25841726

• Final Report Year: 2014

Final Report Abstract

Our research programme’s main goal was to uncover how the brain accommodates the highest level of skill. We have shown the way the brain implements skilled processes of object and pattern recognition but we also demonstrated the value of using expertise as a research approach by extending our research to the classical fields of face and scene perception. The project had a great wider reception as the scientific TV show “Planetopia” featured a 7 minute film on the research and the famous New York Times and magazine for popular science, New Scientist, ran stories on the results.

Publications

• (2010). Mechanisms and neural basis of object and pattern recognition – A study with chess experts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134, 728-742
  Bilalić, M., Langner, R., Erb, M., & Grodd, W.
  
• (2011). It takes two - skilled recognition of objects engages lateral areas in both hemispheres. PLoS ONE 6: e16202
  Bilalić, M., Kiesel, A., Pohl, C., Erb, M., & Grodd, W.
  
• (2011). Many faces of expertise – the role of FFA in chess experts and novices. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 10206-10214
  Bilalić, M., Langner, R., Ulrich, R., & Grodd, W.
  
• (2012). Expertise modulates the neural basis of context dependent recognition of objects and their relations. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 2728-2740
  Bilalić, M., Turella, L., Campitelli, G., Erb, M., & Grodd, W.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21396)
• (2013). The parietal junction contributes to global Gestalt perception – evidence from in chess experts. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:513
  Bilalić, M., Rennig, J., Huberle, E., Karnath, HO., & Himmelbach, M.