Prof Anders Ericsson on The Making of Experts by Deliberate Practice and why Innate Talent does not Seem to Matter
The School of Psychology, UCD, presents a lecture by Prof Anders Ericsson in UCD, Wed 4 May 2011, Theatre C004, Health Sciences Building, 7.30 pm. Prof Ericsson will give a presentation entitled ‘The Making of Experts by Deliberate Practice and why Innate Talent does not Seem to Matter’.K. Anders Ericsson, PhD, is presently Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. After his Ph. D. in Sweden, he collaborated with the Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Herbert A. Simon on verbal reports of thinking leading to their classic book “Protocol Analysis: Verbal Reports as Data” (1984). Currently he studies the measurement of expert performance in domains, such as music, chess, nursing, law enforcement, and sports, and how expert performers attain their superior performance by acquiring complex cognitive mechanisms and physiological adaptations through extended deliberate practice. He has edited several books on expertise, the influential “Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance” consisted of over 40 chapters and 900 pages and the recent “Development of Professional Expertise: Toward measurement of expert performance and design of optimal learning environments”, which appeared this summer. He has published articles in prestigious journals, such as Science, Psychological Review, and Trends of Cognitive Science. In 2007 he wrote the article “the Making of an Expert” for Harvard Business Review. He is a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. His research has been featured recently in cover stories in Scientific American, Time, Fortune, Wall Street Journal and New York Times. In 2007 he was described by Fast Company Magazine as “The expert on expertise.” In 2009 Wall Street Journal and New York Times argued that he was a leader for the modern view of genius and new research on giftedness and extraordinary talent.
This free of charge public lecture will be of interest to all individuals who seek to understand excellence in their field of interest.