Neuroscientific evidence support that chess improves academic performance in school
2019; Volume: 20; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.24875/rmn.m19000060
ISSN2604-6180
AutoresRicardo Ortiz-Pulido, Raúl Ortiz‐Pulido, Luis I. García, César A. Pérez-Estudillo, María L. Ramírez-Ortega,
Tópico(s)Sports and Physical Education Research
ResumoIn this work, we report the cognitive benefits of playing chess for school-aged children.The most benefitted areas appear to be math and reading.To validate these results, a diversity of scientific studies are described, in which brain activation is demonstrated through magnetic resonance imaging when novice, intermediate, and advance chess players play the game.Given this evidence, it is suggested that chess be used as a tool to improve academic performance in boys and girls.In addition, it is concluded that studying the use of chess could lead to new lines of research that could validate the neural mechanisms that occur when boys and girls play chess.
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