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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: Top Cogn Sci. 2009 Oct 30;2(2):285–305. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01053.x

Table 1.

Some characteristics of novice and expert information extraction. (See text.)

NOVICE EXPERT
DISCOVERY Effects
 SELECTIVITY: Attention to irrelevant and relevant information Selective pickup of relevant information/Filtering
 UNITS: Simple features “Chunks”/Higher-order relations
FLUENCY Effects
 SPEED: Slow Fast
 ATTENTIONAL LOAD: High Low
 SEARCH TYPE: Serial processing Some parallel processing