About cognitive studies and projects

Abstract

One of the major areas of research in our Lab is the study of experts and expertise in solving different problems. The “experts” are people that achieved considerable success in any activity. It is worth noting that it does not matter how narrow is the feld of activity: it could be only one type of problems or even just one problem. The main interest in this area involves the differences between experts — specialists in some feld of knowledge, and novices. The main goal is to understand what exactly allows the experts to solve the problems quickly, effciently and with a far smaller number of errors compared to the novices. We are interested in a wide variety of problem situations — from arithmetic and mathematical word problems included in the school program to complex and poorly structured management problems.