Mahwah, NJ, Estados Unidos : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

xi, 369 p. : il. ; 23 cm.

1. The acquisition of expert performance. -- 2. The role of practice and coaching in entrepreneurial skill domains. -- 3. Deliberate practice in sports: what is it anyway? -- 4. The acquisition of musical performance expertise. -- 5. The acquisition of medical expertise in complex dynamic environments. -- 6. Perceptual and memory processes in the acquisition of expert performance: The EPAM model. -- 7. Expertise in reading. -- 8. Creative expertise: a life-span developmental perspective. -- 9. The childhoods and early lives of geniuses. -- 10. The rage to master: The decisive role of talent in the visual arts. -- 11. Changing the agency for learning: Acquiring expert performance. -- 12. Expert performance and the history of science. -- 13. Capturing expertise in sports. -- 14. Laboratory experimentation on the genesis of expertise. -- 15. Costs of expertise. --

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.

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