Enhancing inferential abilities in adolescence: New hope for students in poverty

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Gamino, Jacquelyn F ^a   Motes, Michael M ^a   Riddle, Russell ^a   Reid Lyon, G ^a   Spence, Jeffrey S ^a   Chapman, Sandra B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Cognitive training; Gist reasoning; Higher order cognition; Inferential abilities; Middle school; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FACT RECALL; FAMILY; FEMALE; GIST REASONING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE SCHOOL; NORMAL HUMAN; POVERTY; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; STUDENT;

EID: 84933678112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00924     Document Type: Article

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