Revision as of 19:31, 5 September 2013

Here is a list of SCRABBLE-related scholarly research of which we are aware. To add to this list, please contact us at info@scrabbleplayers.org.

Strategy

• Sheppard, Brian. "World-championship-caliber Scrabble." Artificial Intelligence 134 no. 1–2: 241–275.
• Sheppard, Brian. "Towards Perfect Play of Scrabble." PhD diss., Universiteit Maastricht, 2002.

Psychology

• Bal, Sharon K. "Leisure activity and risk of dementia scrabble, anyone?." Canadian Family Physician 50 (2004): 51–53.
• Cansino, S., A. Ruiz, and V. López-Alonso. "What does the brain do while playing scrabble?: ERPs associated with a short-long-term memory task." International Journal of Psychophysioly 31, no. 3 (1999): 261–274.
• Hargreaves, Ian S., Penny M. Pexman, Lenka Zdrazilova, and Peter Sargious. "How a hobby can shape cognition: visual word recognition in competitive Scrabble players." Memory & Cognition 40, no. 1 (2012): 1–7.
• Hills, T.T., P.M. Todd, and R.L. Goldstone. "Search in external and internal spaces: evidence for generalized cognitive search processes." Psychological Science 19, no. 8 (2008): 802–808.
• Tuffiash, Michael, Roy W. Roring, and K. Anders Ericsson. "Expert Performance in SCRABBLE: Implications for the Study of the Structure and Acquisition of Complex Skills." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 13, no. 3: 124–134.

Other Medicine

• Rey, M., J. Pelletier, A. Dalecky, G. Sabbagh, O. Levrier, A. Ali Cherif, and R. Khalil. "Epilepsie réflexe avec crises induites par le calcul mental, le jeu d'échecs et le jeu de scrabble = Reflex epilepsy with seizures induced by calculation, playing chess and scrabble." Revue neurologique 152, no. 2 (1996): 116–120.