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Historical increases in expert performance suggest large possibilities for improvement of performance without implicating innate capacities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Andreas C. Lehmann
Andreas C. Lehmann
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 [email protected] www.psy.fsu.edu/post.docs/lehmann.dp.html
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Abstract

Innate talents supposedly limit an individual's highest attainable level of performance and the rate of skill acquisition. However, Howe et al. have not reviewed evidence that the level of expert performance has increased dramatically over the last few centuries. Those increases demonstrate that the highest levels of performance may be less constrained by innate capacities than is commonly believed.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 1998 , pp. 419 - 420
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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