Arts education, academic achievement and cognitive ability

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 364-384

  Swaminathan, Swathi ^a   Schellenberg, E Glenn ^b  

^a CHRIST DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139207058.018     Document Type: Chapter

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