Testing the Limits of Skill Transfer for Scrabble Experts in Behaviour and Brain

We investigated transfer of the skills developed by competitive Scrabble players. Previous studies reported superior performance for Scrabble experts on the lexical decision task (LDT), suggesting near transfer of Scrabble skills. Here we investigated the potential for far transfer to a symbol decis...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sophia Van Hees, Penny M Pexman, Ian Hargreaves, Lenka Zdrazilova, Jessie M Hart, Kaia Myers-Stewart, Filomeno Cortese, Andrea B Protzner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00564/full