Speed of information processing, psychometric intelligence: And time estimation as an index of cognitive load

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1009-1021

  Fink, Andreas ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Intelligence; Mental speed; Time estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012893568     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00089-1     Document Type: Article

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