cognitive psychology. PhD 
thinking about the stuff about chess players easily memorizing valid chess positionshttps://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1115342314119938049 …
Also true in programming, except: "Unlike [chess], our Experts’ superiority was not restricted to the first trial; they continued to recognize familiar segments of code after the first trial, so their performance diverges from that of the lesser skilled subjects."
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"The pictorial representations in chess allow Experts to recognize familiar chunks at a glance, whereas the computer experts required several trials to understand the program’s various functions, recognize its overall structure, and then recall more chunks-on each trial."
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McKeithen, Katherine B., Judith S. Reitman, Henry H. Rueter, and Stephen C. Hirtle. “Knowledge Organization and Skill Differences in Computer Programmers.” Cognitive Psychology 13, no. 3 (July 1981): 307–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(81)90012-8 ….
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