Spaced cognitive training promotes training transfer

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Zuowei ^a   Zhou, Renlai ^b   Shah, Priti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitive training; Fluid intelligence; Primary school; Schedule; Spacing; Transfer; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRETEST POSTTEST CONTROL GROUP DESIGN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAVEN PROGRESSIVE MATRICES TEST; SPATIAL LEARNING; TRAINING OF TRANSFER; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84898446112     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00217     Document Type: Article

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