Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6829-6833

  Jaeggi, Susanne M ^a,b   Buschkuehl, Martin ^a,b   Jonides, John ^a   Perrig, Walter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive training; Control processes; Executive processes; Individual differences; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MEMORY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 44349087779     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801268105     Document Type: Article

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