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'''William G. (Bill) Chase''', (July 23, 1940 - December 16, 1983)<br/>
was an American [[Psychology:Category:Psychologist|psychologist]] and professor at [[Carnegie Mellon University]], who gained recognition for his experiments demonstrating that good memory is an acquired skill. He researched with [[Herbert Simon]] on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception Perception] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill Skill] in Chess, and co-authored three publications on that topic in 1973. William G. Chase died in December 1983 while jogging, aged 43 <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/18/obituaries/william-g-chase-43-tested-memory-as-skill.html William G. Chase, 43 - Tested Memory as Skill - Obituary] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times NYTimes.com]</ref>.
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* [[William Chase]] ('''1969''') ''Parameters of visual and memory search''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison University of Wisconsin-Madison]
* [[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). Academic Press, reprinted ('''1988''') in Readings in Cognitive Science (ed. A.M. Collins). Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA.
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