Fernand Gobet (born February 12, 1962 in Switzerland) is a cognitive scientist and a

cognitive psychologist Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which he ...

, currently Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

. His research interests focus on the study of cognition, especially in the areas of

cognitive architectures A cognitive architecture refers to both a theory about the structure of the human mind and to a computational instantiation of such a theory used in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational cognitive science. The formalized mode ...

, perception,

intuition Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning. Different fields use the word "intuition" in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious knowledge; unconscious cognition; ...

, problem solving, learning and decision making. He has developed the CHREST cognitive architecture, an acronym for Chunk Hierarchy and REtrieval STructures, which is a complete architecture for the processes of learning and perception used by humans. He is a

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

International Master, and played numerous times for the Swiss national team. He was co-editor of the Swiss Chess Review from 1981 to 1989. His Elo rating is 2400.

Books

* Addis, M., Lane, P., Sozou, P., & Gobet, F. (Eds.) (2019). Scientific discovery in the social sciences. New York: Springer. * Gobet, F. (2018). The psychology of chess. London: Routledge. * Gobet, F. (2015). Understanding expertise: A multidisciplinary approach. London: Palgrave. * Gobet, F. & Schiller, M. (Eds.) (2014). Problem gambling: Cognition, prevention and treatment. London: Palgrave Macmillan. * Gobet, F. (2011). Psychologie du talent et de l’expertise. Paris: De Boeck. * Gobet, F., Chassy, P., & Bilalić, M. (2011). Foundations of cognitive psychology. New York, NY: McGraw Hill. * Gobet, F., de Voogt, A., & Retschitzki, J. (2004). Moves in mind - The psychology of board games. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. * de Groot, A. & Gobet, F. (1996). Perception and memory in chess. Heuristics of the professional eye. Assen: Van Gorcum. * Gobet, F. (1993). Les mémoires d'un joueur d'échecs. Fribourg (Switzerland): Editions Universitaires

References

External links

Page on Chess Programming Wiki
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gobet, Fernand 1962 births Living people Cognitive scientists Artificial intelligence researchers Swiss psychologists Swiss chess players Chess International Masters Chess Olympiad competitors Academics of Brunel University London Academics of the University of Liverpool