Human Abilities Their Nature And Measurement

By I. Dennis, Patrick Tapsfield. 2013

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Limits on the Predictive Power of Domain-Specific Experience and Knowledge in Skilled Performance (2011, background): “…span), working-memory capacity correlates strongly with abstract reasoning, problem solving, decision making, language comprehension, and complex learning (see Hambrick, 2005, for a review)—and with the general factor of intelligence, or psychometric g (e.g., Kane et al., 2004; Kyllonen, 1996).”
Educational triage and ability-grouping in primary mathematics: a case-study of the impacts on low-attaining pupils (2014, background): “Ability has proven to be a particularly contentious Discourse, not least because it lacks solid definition, being “plagued by conceptual problems” (Howe, 1996, p. 40).”
Effects of spatial training on mathematics in first and sixth grade children. (2020, background): “The nature of the shared processing driving these effects remains unknown, but some theorists have suggested the two domains are related because mathematics, along with other complex concepts, is mentally represented in a spatial format (Barsalou, 2008; Lakoff & Núñez, 2000; Lohman, 1996).”
The Latent Structure of Spatial Skills and Mathematics: A Replication of the Two-Factor Model (2017, background): “Alternatively, one could argue that spatial processing itself provides a format for abstract thought that is common to both domains (Lohman, 1996).”