@bjbalas' Substack - Science writing from the Frozen North
Ben BalasMy home for science writing about #visionscience, #chess, #drawing and anything else I'm excited about.
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Science of Chess: What happens in the brain when we see the best move?
If you, like me, are a squarely average player, looking at a puzzle like the one below presents you with about a 50/50 shot at getting the right answer. Surely there is some tricky tactical play that leads to a clear win? Then again, is the...
Science of Chess: Reflex Epilepsy induced by Playing Chess
We're now three weeks into the semester at my home institution and my Neuropsychology students are just starting to try their hand at interpreting data from hypothetical (and a few real) brain-injured patients. That means that we encounter ...
Science of Chess: Gestalt Processing in Experts' Brains
In my last Science of Chess post, I started describing some of what we know about the cortical organization of chess from a combination of fMRI experiments and direct stimulation of neural tissue. One of the ideas I brought up in that piece...
Science of Chess - Finding chess expertise in the brain: A case study
So far in these "Science of Chess" articles, I've focused on various research results describing the cognitive and perceptual science of chess. You could broadly summarize all of these essays as attempts to comment on what we know about how...
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I'm a vision scientist, amateur artist, mediocre chess player, and aspiring writer of interesting things. Professor of Psychology at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.
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