If I have an intellectual hero, it was Ericsson's post-doc advisor Herb Simon. In "Peak", Ericsson talks about work they did together on the mental representations used by expert chess players. I recently reread some of a lecture Simon gave in 1982 ("Reason In Human Affairs") and it is pretty much golden. Simon is the person responsible for the idea of bounded rationality, but in that talk he also captured ideas about information overload/"quality of information"/"media ecology" that were talked about later by Neil Postman and Nassim Taleb and are especially relevant today although they haven't quite sunk into our culture yet:

https://books.google.com/books?id=TYnI9tbHkCEC&pg=PA93&lpg=P...