Editing Child prodigy (section)

==== Practice-plasticity-processes model ====
Practice-plasticity-processes (PPP) model was proposed to explain the existence of chess prodigies by integrating the practice extreme and innate talent extreme theories. Besides deliberate practice, [[neuroplasticity]] is identified as another critical component for developing chess heuristics (e.g., simple search techniques and abstract rules like “occupy the centre”), [[Chunking (psychology)|chunks]] (e.g., group of pieces locating in specific squares), and templates (e.g., familiarised complex patterns of chunks), which are essential for chess skills. The more plastic the brain is, the easier it is for them to acquire chunks, templates, and heuristics for better performance. On the other hand, inherited individual differences in the brain are circumscribed children to learn these skills.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Campitelli |first1=Guillermo |title=Cognitive Processes and Development of Chess Genius: An Integrative Approach |date=2014-06-03 |work=The Wiley Handbook of Genius |pages=350–374 |editor-last=Simonton |editor-first=Dean Keith |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118367377.ch17 |access-date=2024-03-19 |edition=1 |publisher=Wiley |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781118367377.ch17 |isbn=978-1-118-36740-7 |last2=Gobet |first2=Fernand |last3=Bilalić |first3=Merim|url-access=subscription }}</ref>