Understanding intelligence: A summary and an adjustable-attention hypothesis

Handbook of Understanding and Measuring Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 469-488

  Cowan, Nelson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452233529.n25     Document Type: Chapter

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