Intelligence and individual differences in performance on three types of visually presented optimisation problems

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1059-1071

  Vickers, Douglas ^a   Mayo, Therese ^a   Heitmann, Megan ^a   Lee, Michael D ^a   Hughes, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; Intelligence; Optimisation; Problem solving; Structure; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742271756     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00200-9     Document Type: Article

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