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Chapter 6 - Intelligence as Domain-Specific Superior Reproducible Performance

The Role of Acquired Domain-Specific Mechanisms in Expert Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2018

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K. Anders Ericsson
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Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg
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Cornell University, New York
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The Nature of Human Intelligence , pp. 85 - 100
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Print publication year: 2018

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