Understanding Our Understanding of Strategic Scenarios: What Role Do Chunks Play?

Understanding Our Understanding of Strategic Scenarios: What Role Do Chunks Play?

There is a crucial debate concerning the nature of chess chunks: One current possibility states that chunks are built by encoding particular combinations of pieces-on-squares (POSs), and that chunks are formed mostly by "close" pieces (in a "Euclidean" sense). A complementary hypothesis is that chunks are encoded by abstract, semantic information. This article extends recent experiments and sho...

Understanding 'what' others do: mirror mechanisms play a crucial role in action perception.

Neurophysiological and imaging studies suggest that the inferior frontal cortex (IFC) implements a mechanism that matches perceived actions to one's motor representation of similar actions (mirror mechanism) and recent lesion studies have also established that IFC is critical for action perception. However, to date causative evidence that action perception requires activation within the same po...

Understanding Caregiver Burden in Colorectal Cancer: What Role Do Patient And Carer Factors Play?

additional 6% to 11% of variance), however carer characteristics only emerged as a significant predictor of the health burden scale (11% of explained variance). Key individual predictor variables of burden domains included patients’ general health status, presence of a stoma, and the time costs associated with care. ConClusions: These results highlight the need to recognise the role that variou...

Breastfeeding: what role do fathers play?

Understanding Personal Practical Knowledge; From what teachers must know to what teachers already know

The purpose of this study is understanding the Personal Practical Knowledge (PPK) of teachers which has been done through qualitative method. Understanding PPK helps us to understand why teachers act in a specific way. In this regards, reflecting on their personal and professional narratives also help to improve their practice. This study was conducted along with 13 teachers in a non-profit pri...