It has been proposed that playing chess enables children to improve their ability in mathematics. These claims have been recently evaluated in a meta-analysis (Sala & Gobet, 2016, Educational Research Review, 18, 46-57), which indicated a signific...
CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 26(6) 515-520 2017年12月 [査読有り]
Chess masters and expert musicians appear to be, on average, more intelligent than the general population. Some researchers have thus claimed that playing chess or learning music enhances children's cognitive abilities and academic attainment. We ...
Giovanni Sala Michela Signorelli Giulia Barsuola Martina Bolognese Fernand Gobet
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 8(JUN) 2017年6月 [査読有り]
The relationship between handedness and mathematical ability is still highly controversial. While some researchers have claimed that left-handers are gifted in mathematics and strong right-handers perform the worst in mathematical tasks, others ha...
The putative effectiveness of working memory (WM) training at enhancing cognitive and academic skills is still ardently debated. Several researchers have claimed that WM training fosters not only skills such as visuospatial WM and short-term memor...
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