Press releases

Researchers investigate how important intelligence and practice are in chess
https://neurosciencenews.com/chess-intelligence-practice-14809/

Harnessing the brain’s right hemisphere to capture many kings
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/science/25chess.html

Chess grandmasters use twice the brain
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19940-chess-grandmasters-use-twice-the-brain/

Don’t get caught in the monkey trap
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/14/how-to-avoid-monkey-trap-oliver-burkeman

What stops you from thinking differently?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/7-billion-brains/201901/what-stops-you-thinking-differently

The brains of experts
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-31/march-2018/brains-experts

Contact

For contacting the researchers, please write an e-mail to:

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.nat.

Roland Grabner

Institut für Psychologie

chess-study(at)uni-graz.at
https://psychologie.uni-graz.at/en/educational-neuroscience/

To participate in the English online study, please click on this link:

https://survey.uni-graz.at/index.php/779284?lang=en

(Duration: 35-45 minutes)

Merim Bilalic

Nemanja Vaci

Universität Graz
Universitätsplatz 3, 8010 Graz, Austria