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

Authors

Alessandro Guida
Guillermo J. Campitelli, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Fernand Gobet

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

School

School of Arts and Humanities

RAS ID

21917

Comments

Guida, A., Campitelli, G., & Gobet, F. (2016). Becoming an expert: Ontogeny of expertise as an example of neural reuse. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e123.

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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.

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X15001570

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