Increasing fluid intelligence is possible after all

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

Volumn 105, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6791-6792

  Sternberg, Robert J ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; NOTE; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; FEMALE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

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

EID: 44349114010     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803396105     Document Type: Note

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