Michael Barenfeld

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Michael Barenfeld,

an American psychologist and computer scientist. While affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the late 60s, he worked with Herbert Simon on perceptual processes in problem solving, and developed a program dubbed Perceiver based on previously developed routines of the program Mater [1] for detecting basic chess relations of attack and defense, to simulate the eye movements of a chess expert over a 5-second interval scanning a chess position preparatory to making a move [2].

• Chunking
• Cognition
• Perceiver
• Psychology

Selected Publications#

[3]

• Herbert Simon, Michael Barenfeld (1968). Information Processing in the Perception of Chess Positions. Carnegie Mellon University, Paper #127
• Herbert Simon, Michael Barenfeld (1969). Information-processing analysis of perceptual processes in problem solving. Psychological Review, Vol. 76, No. 5, pdf, reprinted in Herbert A. Simon (1979). Models of Thought. Yale University Press

References#

1. ↑ George W. Baylor, Herbert A. Simon (1966). A chess mating combinations program. AFIPS Joint Computer Conferences, reprinted in Herbert A. Simon (1979). Models of Thought. Yale University Press, and in (1988). Computer Chess Compendium.
2. ↑ Herbert Simon, Kevin J. Gilmartin (1973). A Simulation of Memory for Chess Positions. Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 5, pp. 29-46, reprinted in Herbert A. Simon (1979). Models of Thought. Yale University Press
3. ↑ ICGA Reference Database

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