Due to potential theoretical and societal implications, cognitive training has been one of the
most influential topics in psychology and neuroscience. The assumption behind cognitive …

Expert decision-making can be directly assessed, if sport action is understood as an
expression of embedded and embodied cognition. Here, we discuss evidence for this claim …

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes
underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological …

Chess masters and expert musicians appear to be, on average, more intelligent than the
general population. Some researchers have thus claimed that playing chess or learning …

Music training has repeatedly been claimed to positively impact children's cognitive skills
and academic achievement (literacy and mathematics). This claim relies on the assumption …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

As a result of considerable potential scientific and societal implications, the possibility of
enhancing cognitive ability by training has been one of the most influential topics of …

Music training has been recently claimed to enhance children and young adolescents'
cognitive and academic skills. However, substantive research on transfer of skills suggests …

Theory building in science requires replication and integration of findings regarding a
particular research question. Second-order meta-analysis (ie, a meta-analysis of meta …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …