The study explored various facets of the intuitive style and its relevance to learning and education from a dual-processing perspective, namely how it relates to other style constructs (analytical; visual and verbal; local and global), gender, and superstitious reasoning and how these are likely to impact upon learning in educational and…

Just as the Raven Progressive Matrices Test was uncorrelated in this sample with other measures of intelligence so was it much less well predicted from several information processing measures. It was found that verbal performance, indicated by a vocabulary score, was highly predictable from measures of information processing. While preserving…

Adult musician's brains show structural enlargements, but it is not known whether these are inborn or a consequence of long-term training. In addition, music training in childhood has been shown to have positive effects on visual-spatial and verbal outcomes. However, it is not known whether pre-existing advantages in these skills are found in…