Editing Go (game) (section)

== Psychological perspectives ==
A 2004 review of literature by [[Fernand Gobet]], de Voogt and [[Jean Retschitzki]] showed that relatively little scientific research had been carried out on the [[psychology]] of Go, compared with other traditional board games such as [[chess]].<ref name="Moves in mind">{{citation | last1= Gobet | first1 = F | last2 = de Voogt | first2 = A. J | last3 = Retschitzki | first3 = J |year = 2004 | title = Moves in Mind: The Psychology of Board Games | publisher = Hove, UK: Psychology Press | isbn = 978-1-84169-336-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fR7xZlGnyl0C}}</ref> Computer Go research has shown that given the large search tree, knowledge and pattern recognition are more important in Go than in other strategy games, such as chess.<ref name="Moves in mind" /> A study of the effects of age on Go-playing<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Masunaga | first1 = H | last2 = Horn | first2 =J. |year = 2001 | journal = Psychology and Aging | issue = 2 | pages = 293–311 | title = Expertise and age-related changes in components of intelligence | doi = 10.1037/0882-7974.16.2.293 | pmid = 11405317 | volume = 16 | issn=0882-7974}}</ref> has shown that mental decline is milder with strong players than with weaker players. According to the review of Gobet and colleagues, the pattern of brain activity observed with techniques such as [[Positron emission tomography|PET]] and [[Functional magnetic resonance imaging|fMRI]] does not show large differences between Go and chess. On the other hand, a study by Xiangchuan Chen et al.<ref>{{citation | author = Chen | journal = Cognitive Brain Research | title = A functional MRI study of high-level cognition II. The game of GO | year = 2003 | doi = 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00206-9 |pmid = 12589886| volume = 16 |issue = 1|pages = 32–7| display-authors = etal}}</ref> showed greater activation in the right hemisphere among Go players than among chess players, but the research was inconclusive because strong players from Go were hired while very weak chess players were hired in the original study.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Atherton |first1=Michael |last2=Zhuang |first2=Jiancheng |last3=Bart |first3=William M |last4=Hu |first4=Xiaoping |last5=He |first5=Sheng |date=March 2003 |title=A functional MRI study of high-level cognition. I. The game of chess |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0926641002002070 |journal=Cognitive Brain Research |language=en |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=26–31 |doi=10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00207-0|pmid=12589885 }}</ref> There is some evidence to suggest a correlation between playing board games and reduced risk of [[Alzheimer's disease]] and [[dementia]].<ref>{{citation | author = Verghese | title = Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly | journal =[[New England Journal of Medicine]] | pmid = 12815136 | doi = 10.1056/NEJMoa022252 | year = 2003 | volume = 348 | pages = 2508–16 | last2 = Lipton | first2 = RB | last3 = Katz | first3 = MJ | last4 = Hall | first4 = CB | last5 = Derby | first5 = CA | last6 = Kuslansky | first6 = G | last7 = Ambrose | first7 = AF | last8 = Sliwinski | first8 = M | last9 = Buschke | first9 = H | issue = 25 | display-authors = 1| doi-access = free }}</ref>

Arthur Mary, a French researcher in clinical [[psychopathology]], reports on his psychotherapeutic approaches using the game of Go with patients in private practice and in a psychiatric ward.<ref>{{citation | last = Mary | first = Arthur | title = Le jeu de go, une voie royale vers l'inconscient | year = 2024 |publisher = L'Harmattan}}</ref> Drawing on [[neuroscience]] research and employing a [[psychoanalytic]] ([[Lacanian]]) and [[Phenomenology (psychology)|phenomenological]] approach, he demonstrates how [[drive theory|drives]] are expressed on the goban.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mary |first=arthur |date=2020 |title=Eros et Thanatos autour du goban |journal=Revue française de go |language=fr |issue=151 }}</ref> He offers some suggestions to therapists for defining ways of playing go that lead to therapeutic effects.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mary |first=arthur |date=2022 |title=Sous le plateau de go, ce je qui vague |journal=Une praxis de la psychanalyse |publisher = L'Harmattan |language=fr }}</ref>