Does Chess Instruction Enhance Mathematical Ability in Children? A Three-Group Design to Control for Placebo Effects

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1973-1978

  Sala, Giovanni ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^a   Trinchero, Roberto ^b   Ventura, Salvatore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

chess; education; mathematics; transfer

Indexed keywords

CHESS; CONTROL GROUPS; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; GROUP DESIGN; METACOGNITIVE SKILLS; OPTIMISTICS; PLACEBO EFFECTS; PLACEBO GROUPS; TRANSFER; WESTERN COUNTRIES;

EID: 85139236313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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