A New Look to a Classic Issue: Reasoning and Academic Achievement at Secondary School

Higher-order thinking abilities such as abstract reasoning and meaningful school learning occur sequentially. The fulfillment of these tasks demands that people activate and use all of their working memory resources in a controlled and supervised way. The aims of this work were: (a) to study the int...

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Main Authors: Isabel Gómez-Veiga, José O. Vila Chaves, Gonzalo Duque, Juan A. García Madruga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00400/full