Enhancing Inferential Abilities in Adolescence: New Hope for Students in Poverty

The ability to extrapolate essential gist through the analysis and synthesis of information, prediction of potential outcomes, abstraction of ideas, and integration of relationships with world knowledge is critical for higher-order learning. The present study investigated the efficacy of cognitive t...

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Main Authors: Jacquelyn F Gamino, Michael A. Motes, Russell eRiddle, G. Reid Lyon, Jeffry S. Spence, Sandra Bond Chapman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00924/full