The eye movements of expert and novice chess players were recorded by electrooculography (EOG) technique as they attempted to find the mate in fifteen tactically active simple chess positions. In the analysis part of the data gathered from EOG recordings, the effect of the drift, which is an important problem for EOG, was reduced. The processed data were converted into coordinates of the display on which the chess positions were demonstrated. In the test phase, the players were asked to fixate the white king which appeared on a different square on an empty chess board for one second. It was predicted on which square the subject fixated by the method developed. The predictions and the actual location of the white king were compared and the results revealed that EOG technique can be used reliably to track the eye movements of the chess players while they fixated on a chess board. It has been revealed that experts produced more fixations on the relevant squares than did the novices as the fixations were investigated. The difference between fixation duration was not significant across skill groups. The results provide evidence for an early perceptual encoding advantage for expert players attributable to chess experience.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12605407/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2004 |
| Creators | Erkent, Ozgur |
| Contributors | Yagcioglu, Suha |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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