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Becoming an expert: Ontogeny of expertise as an example of neural reuse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2016

Alessandro Guida ,
Guillermo Campitelli  and
Fernand Gobet
Alessandro Guida
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Université Rennes 2, Rennes, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France. alessandro.guida@univ-rennes2.fr http://alessandro-guida.blogspot.fr/
Guillermo Campitelli
Affiliation:
School of Psychology and Social Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth WA6027, Australia. g.campitelli@ecu.edu.au http://gcampitelli.com
Fernand Gobet
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZA, United Kingdom. fernand.gobet@liverpool.ac.uk http://www.chrest.info/fg/home.htm
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Abstract

In this commentary, we discuss an important pattern of results in the literature on the neural basis of expertise: (a) decrease of cerebral activation at the beginning of acquisition of expertise and (b) functional cerebral reorganization as a consequence of years of practice. We show how these two results can be integrated with the neural reuse framework.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e123
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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