Ebenezer Joseph

Emmanuel Chess Centre · R&D

Creativity is the tendency to create or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems. It is the ability to produce work that is both novel (i.e., original, unexpected) and appropriate (i.e., adaptive concerning task constraints). This study analyzed the effect of 2-year chess training program on the creativ...

MALLEABILITY OF WORKING MEMORY THROUGH CHESS TRAINING IN SCHOOL CHILDREN Ebenezer Joseph1, Veena Easvaradoss2, T. Edwin Prabhakaran3, & Sweta Jain4 1Cognitive Science Research Initiative, Government of India; P&T Audit Office (India) 2Department of Psychology, Women’s Christian College (India) 3Department of Statistics, Loyola College (India) 4Depa...

Verbal reasoning embraces the collective ability of a person to comprehend the meaning of verbal information in whatever forms it is presented, enabling the individuals' thought processes consequently to further process the given information. It is the process of gathering information, analyzing, thinking, and evaluating it to form ideas, beliefs,...

Processing speed is one of the measures of cognitive efficiency. It refers to the ability to automatically and fluently execute relatively easy or overlearned cognitive tasks, especially when high mental efficiency is required. Contemporary research has shown that the speed of information processing is dynamically associated with mental capacity, r...

Perceptual reasoning is the ability that incorporates fluid reasoning, spatial processing, and visual motor integration. Several theories of cognitive functioning emphasize the importance of fluid reasoning. Tasks that require fluid reasoning involve the process of manipulating abstractions, rules, generalizations, and logical relationships. A pret...

Systematic training of chess has been shown to significantly increase the IQ and cognitive functioning among children. The study assessed the impact of chess intervention on the IQ scores of children and analyzed the cognitive functions that contributed to the IQ gain. Eighty-six school children, boys and girls in the age group (4-15) undergoing ch...

The objective of this study was to examine the effect of chess training on academic performance of middle school children in rural India. The impact of chess on various academic courses was examined. The sample consisted of 100 students of sixth grade with an intervention group undergoing chess training and a control group. Statistical tests were c...