Anders Ericsson

Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University.

Anders Ericsson was a Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, where he studied how people become experts in various fields like music, chess, nursing, law enforcement and sports. Ericsson also looked at how expert performers achieved excellence by acquiring specific, complex cognitive mechanisms–ways of training their brain–through extended, deliberate practice.