Merim Bilalić, a Bosnian and Herzegovinian psychologist at the University Hospital of University of Tübingen, and FIDE Master in chess. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University in 2008 on the topic of Einstellung effect in Chess or why good thoughts block better ones, supervised by Peter McLeod and Fernand Gobet, and was awarded with the Science Prize of the Karpov Chess Academy Rhine-Neckar for his thesis [1] [2].
Merim Bilalić [3]

Einstellung effect

See also

• Chunking
• Cognition
• Psychology

Selected Publications

• Merim Bilalić, Peter McLeod, Fernand Gobet (2006). Does Chess need Intelligence? A study with young chess players. Intelligence, 35, 457-470, preprint pdf, final pdf
• Merim Bilalić, Fernand Gobet (2007). They do what they are told to do: The influence of instruction on (chess) expert perception - Commentary on Linhares and Brum (2007). Cognitive Science. pdf ^{[6] [7]}
• Merim Bilalić, Peter McLeod, Fernand Gobet (2008). Inflexibility of experts—Reality or myth? Quantifying the Einstellung effect in chess masters. Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 56, No. 2
• Merim Bilalić, Peter McLeod, Fernand Gobet (2008). Why Good Thoughts Block Better Ones: The Mechanism of the Pernicious Einstellung (set) Effect. Cognition, Vol. 108, No. 3, preprint pdf
• Merim Bilalić, Peter McLeod, Fernand Gobet (2009). Specialization effect and its influence on memory and problem solving in expert chess players. Cognitive Science, Vol. 33, No. 6
• Merim Bilalić, Robert Langner, Michael Erb, Wolfgang Grodd (2010). Mechanisms and neural basis of object and pattern recognition: a study with chess experts. Journal of Experimenal Psychology General, Vol. 139, No. 4
• Merim Bilalić, Luca Turella, Guillermo Campitelli, Michael Erb, Wolfgang Grodd (2011). Expertise modulates the neural basis of context dependent recognition of objects and their relations. Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 32
• Fernand Gobet, Philippe Chassy, Merim Bilalić (2011). Foundations of Cognitive Psychology. McGraw Hill » amazon.com
• Merim Bilalić, Peter McLeod, Fernand Gobet (2011). Expert and “novice” problem solving strategies in chess: Sixty years of citing de Groot (1946). Thinking and Reasoning, Vol. 14, No. 4

External Links

• Merim Bilalic chess games - 365Chess.com
• Universitätsklinikum Tübingen - Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen
• Karpow - Schachakademie Rhein-Neckar e.V | Verleihung des Wissenschaftspreises 2008/2009 (German)
• Wissenschaftspreis Schach verliehen from Schach – Ticker, September 14, 2009 (German)
• Wissenschaftspreis der KSA für Merim Bilalic, ChessBase News, September 15, 2009 (German)
• Brettspiel: Schach | Spiele, Zeit online, January 4, 2010 (German)
• Der Psychologe Merim Bilalic erforscht mit Schachproblemen das menschliche Denken Schwäbisches Tagblatt Tübingen, January 13, 2010 (German)
• Wissenschaftspreis für Dr. Merim Bilalic | lokalmatador.de, June 19, 2011
  Preis der Karpow-Schachakademie verliehen | lokalmatador.de, Video, June 19, 2011, with Sponsor Bernd Wochele, Anatoly Karpov, Hanno Dürr, Robert von Weizsäcker and Merim Bilalić

References

1. ^ Karpow - Schachakademie Rhein-Neckar e.V.
2. ^ Wissenschaftspreis für Dr. Merim Bilalic | lokalmatador.de, June 19, 2011
3. ^ Karpow - Schachakademie Rhein-Neckar e.V | Verleihung des Wissenschaftspreises 2008/2009
4. ^ Merim Bilalić, Peter McLeod, Fernand Gobet (2008). Why Good Thoughts Block Better Ones: The Mechanism of the Pernicious Einstellung (set) Effect. Cognition, Vol. 108, No. 3, preprint pdf
5. ^ DBLP: Merim Bilalic
6. ^ Alexandre Linhares, Paulo Brum (2007). Understanding our understanding of strategic scenarios: What role do chunks play. Cognitive Science, 31, pdf
7. ^ Alexandre Linhares, Paulo Brum (2009). How Can Experts See the Invisible? Reply to Bilalic and Gobet. Cognitive Science, Vol 33, No. 5

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