Good article exploring expertise as innate or acquired...and the heavy emphasis on accessing long-term memory in to meet current challenges (i.e. pattern recognition, or replacing current problems with known/solved problems in the past - "thinking the term memory", which is typically viewed only as a storage location, not an area of cognition. ): The Expert Mind: "Thus, motivation appears to be a more important factor than innate ability in the development of expertise."
Posted by gsiemens at August 1, 2006 9:19 AM | TrackBack