Re: chess or poker
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fly, the brain regions involved in 'spatio-temporal' reasoning are activated during any task involving pattern recognition. listening to music, educing syntactical relationships in novel languages, and figuring out which matrix of shapes comes next in a series all involve similar neuronal processes. i will state it again: pattern recognition of almost all types (depends on definitions) involves spatio-temporal reasoning. individuals who score lower than expected given their composite IQ score on spatial subtests tend to perform worse on pattern recognition subtests than individuals of similar IQ w/normal spatial scores.
proportional reasoning involves estimating the relative sizes of things. it also involves the brain regions associated with spatio-temporal reasoning. when reading hands you're estimating the relative likelihood of an opponent holding each possible holding, and there's a damn good chance this is almost purely proportional reasoning with pattern recognition being used to glean useful information.
don't really want to get into the specifics here, but you're wrong! read up!
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Very interesting posts VanVeen, thx for taking the time.
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