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a Slovenian [[Psychology:Category:Psychologist|psychologist]], since 1991 associate professor of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_psychology developmental psychology] at Faculty of Education of [[University of Ljubljana]], where she already received her Ph.D. in psychology in 1983 with the thesis title ''Some Cognitive Processes in the Game of Chess'' <ref>[[Simona Tancig]] ('''1983'''). ''[http://books.google.com/books/about/Nekateri_kognitivni_procesi_v_%C5%A1ahovski.html?id=41VDNAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Nekateri kognitivni procesi v šahovski igri]''. Some Cognitive Processes in the Game of Chess. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Ljubljana]] (Slovenian)</ref>.

Along with [[Ivan Bratko]] and [[Peter Tancig]] in the early 80s, Simona Tancig researched on cognitive processes in the game of chess and on detection of positional patterns and [[Chunking|chunks]]. Similar to the attempts of [[Adriaan de Groot]] <ref> [[Adriaan de Groot]] ('''1965, 1978'''). ''Thought and Choice in Chess''. Mouton & Co Publishers </ref>, and [[William Chase]] and [[Herbert Simon]] <ref>[[William Chase]], [[Herbert Simon]] ('''1973'''). ''[http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1974-08328-004 The Mind’s Eye in Chess]''. Visual Information Processing: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Carnegie Psychology Symposium (ed. W. G. Chase), pp. 215-281. Academic Press, New York. Reprinted ('''1988''') in Readings in Cognitive Science (ed. A.M. Collins). Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA. </ref> <ref>[[William Chase]], [[Herbert Simon]] ('''1973'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010028573900042 Perception in chess]''. [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622807/description#description Cognitive Psychology], Vol. 4, No. 1, [http://matt.colorado.edu/teaching/highcog/fall8/cs73.pdf pdf]</ref>, they conducted experiments where chess players had to reconstruct complicated [[Middlegame|middlegame]] [[Chess Position|positions]] after a short view on diagrams, with the novel aspects of collective reconstruction, as published in the [[ICGA Journal|ICCA Journal]] <ref>[[Ivan Bratko]], [[Peter Tancig]], [[Simona Tancig]] ('''1984'''). ''[[Simona Tancig#ChessExperiment|Detection of Positional Patterns in Chess]]''. [[ICGA Journal|ICCA Journal]], Vol. 7, No. 2, (abridged version)</ref> and [[Advances in Computer Chess 4]].