The prospects of working memory training for improving deductive reasoning

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Beatty, Erin L ^a   Vartanian, Oshin ^a,b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Education intervention; Fluid intelligence; N back; Reasoning; Working memory training

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DEDUCTIVE REASONING; EDUCATION; FLUID INTELLIGENCE; HIGH SCHOOL; HISTORY; HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENT; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933680095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00056     Document Type: Article

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