On the relationship between general fluid intelligence and psychophysical indicators of temporal resolution in the brain

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 507-530

  Rammsayer, Thomas H ^a   Brandler, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory fusion threshold; Duration discrimination; Intelligence; Internal clock; Temporal order judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036775549     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00006-5     Document Type: Article

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