Research Catalog

Title

The road to excellence : the acquisition of expert performance in the arts and sciences, sports, and games / edited by K. Anders Ericsson.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Ericsson, Anders, 1947-2020.

Description

xi, 369 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• Why do so few individuals ever reach the highest levels when so many start out on the Road to Excellence? In this book, the world's foremost researchers of expert performance in domains as diverse as sports, medicine, chess, and the arts explore the similarities and differences in the extended and strenuous Road to Excellence taken by the successful individuals in each domain.
• Their findings will intrigue and inspire readers who are themselves driven to achieve or who simply want to better understand the processes involved.

Subjects

• Gifted persons
• Excellence
• Expertise

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. The Acquisition of Expert Performance: An Introduction to Some of the Issues / K. Anders Ericsson -- 2. The Role of Practice and Coaching in Entrepreneurial Skill Domains: An International Comparison of Life-Span Chess Skill Acquisition / Neil Charness, Ralf Krampe and Ulrich Mayr -- 3. Deliberate Practice in Sports: What Is It Anyway? / Janet L. Starkes, Janice M. Deakin, Fran Allard, Nicola J. Hodges and April Hayes -- 4. The Acquisition of Musical Performance Expertise: Deconstructing the "Talent" Account of Individual Differences in Musical Expressivity / John A. Sloboda -- 5. The Acquisition of Medical Expertise in Complex Dynamic Environments / Vimla L. Patel, David R. Kaufman and Sheldon A. Magder -- 6. Perceptual and Memory Processes in the Acquisition of Expert Performance: The EPAM Model / Howard B. Richman, Fernand Gobet, James J. Staszewski and Herbert A. Simon -- 7. Expertise in Reading / Richard K. Wagner and Keith E. Stanovich --
• 8. Creative Expertise: A Life-Span Developmental Perspective / Dean Keith Simonton -- 9. The Childhoods and Early Lives of Geniuses: Combining Psychological and Biographical Evidence / Michael J. A. Howe -- 10. The Rage to Master: The Decisive Role of Talent in the Visual Arts / Ellen Winner -- 11. Changing the Agency for Learning: Acquiring Expert Performance / Robert Glaser -- 12. Expert Performance and the History of Science / Frederic L. Holmes -- 13. Capturing Expertise in Sports / John B. Shea and Geoffrey Paull -- 14. Laboratory Experimentation on the Genesis of Expertise / Richard M. Shiffrin -- 15. Costs of Expertise / Robert J. Sternberg.

ISBN

• 0805822313 (alk. paper)
• 0805822321 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95052848

OCLC

• ocm34117658
• SCSB-3381350

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries