The Intuitive Practitioner: Cognitive Aspects on the Development of Expertise

In recent years the interest in expertise and proficiency has been raising, in educational research, knowledge management as well as in cognitive science. The expert’s know how or procedural knowledge is often hidden even for him or her self, it is tacit. ”We can know more than we can tell”.(Polanyi, 1967) This paper is an “Integrative research review”, trying to show new aspects of experience-based learning and the development of expertise. Several new results from brain imaging studies and from neuropsychology gives reason to believe that experts utilize nondeclarative, implicit memories to perform better. These results delivers new ways of understanding how experts perceive, assess, decide and take action.