Goal Neglect and Spearman's g: Competing Parts of a Complex Task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-148

  Duncan, John ^a   Parr, Alice ^a   Woolgar, Alexandra ^a   Thompson, Russell ^a   Bright, Peter ^a   Cox, Sally ^a   Bishop, Sonia ^a   Nimmo Smith, Ian ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attention; frontal lobe; goal neglect; intelligence; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 39449108608     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.1.131     Document Type: Article

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