Fernand Gobet
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fernand Gobet (born February 12, 1962, in Switzerland) is a cognitive scientist and a cognitive psychologist, currently Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Roehampton. His research interests focus on the study of cognition, especially in the areas of cognitive architectures, perception, intuition, problem solving, learning and decision making. He has developed the CHREST cognitive architecture, an acronym for Chunk Hierarchy and REtrieval STructures, which is a complete architecture for the processes of learning and perception used by humans.[1]
Gobet is also a chess International Master, and played numerous times for the Swiss national team.[2] He was co-editor of the Swiss Chess Review from 1981 to 1989. His Elo rating reached a high of 2401, but he has been inactive in competitive chess since 2012.[3]
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