Short-term storage and mental speed account for the relationship between working memory and fluid intelligence

Psicothema

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 780-785

  Burgaleta, Miguel ^a   Colom, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55449110626     PISSN: 02149915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Ackerman, P.L., Beier, M.E., & Boyle, M.O. (2002). Individual differences in working memory within a nomological network of cognitive and perceptual speed abilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, 131, 567-589.
2. Ackerman, P.L., Beier, M.E., & Boyle, M.O. (2005). Working memory and intelligence: The same or different constructs? Psychological Bulletin, 131, 30-60.
3. Babcock, R.L. (1994). Analysis of adult age differences on the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices test. Psychology and Aging, 9, 303-314.
4. Bayliss, D.M., Jarrold, C., Gunn, D., & Baddeley, A. (2003). The complexities of complex span: Explaining individual differences in working memory in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 71-92.
5. Bennett, G.K., Seashore, H.G., & Wesman, A.G. (1990). Differential Aptitude Test (5th edition). Madrid, TEA.
6. Colom, R., Abad, F., Rebollo, I., & Shih, P.C. (2005 a). Memory span and general intelligence: A latent-variable approach. Intelligence, 33, 623-642.
7. Colom, R., Abad, F.J., Shih, P.C., Quiroga, M.A., & Flores-Mendoza, C. (in press). Working memory and intelligence are highly related constructs, but why? Intelligence.
8. Colom, R., Escorial, S., Shih, P.C., & Privado, J. (2007). Fluid intelligence, memory span and temperament difficulties predict academic performance of young adolescents. Personality & Individual Differences, 42, 1503-1514.
9. Colom, R., Flores-Mendoza., C., Quiroga, M.Á., & Privado, J. (2005 b). Working memory and general intelligence: The role of short-term storage. Personality & Individual Differences, 39, 1005-1014.
10. Colom, R., Rebollo, I., Abad, F., & Shih, P.C. (2006 b). Simple span tasks, complex span tasks and cognitive abilities: A re-analysis of key studies. Memory & Cognition, 34, 158-171.
11. Colom, R., Rebollo, I., Palacios, A., Juan-Espinosa, M., & Kyllonen, P.C. (2004). Working memory is (almost) perfectly predicted by g. Intelligence, 32, 277-296.
12. Colom, R., Rubio, V., Shih, P.C., & Santacreu, J. (2006 a). Fluid intelligence, working memory and executive functioning. Psicothema, 18, 816-821.
13. Colom, R., & Shih, P.C. (2004). Is working memory fractionated onto different components of intelligence? Intelligence, 32, 431-444.
14. Conway, A., Cowan, N., Bunting, M., Therriault, D., & Minkoff, S. (2002). A latent variable analysis of working memory capacity, shortterm memory capacity, processing speed and general fluid intelligence. Intelligence, 30, 163-183.
15. Engle, R.W., & Kane, M.J. (2004). Executive attention, working memory capacity and a two-factor theory of cognitive control. Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, vol. 44, 145-199.
16. Engle, R.W., Kane, M.J., & Tuholski, S.W. (1999). Individual differences in working memory capacity and what they tell us about controlled attention, general fluid intelligence and functions of the prefrontal cortex. In A. Miyake & P. Shah (Eds.): Models of working memory. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 102-134.
17. Engle, R.W., Tuholski, S.W., Laughlin, J.E., & Conway, A.R.A. (1999). Working memory, short-term memory and general fluid intelligence: A latent-variable approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, 128, 309-331.
18. Eriksen, B.A., & Eriksen, C.W. (1974). Effects of noise letters upon the identification of target letter in a non-search task. Perception and Psychophysics, 16, 143-149.
19. Fry, A.F., & Hale, S. (1996). Processing speed, working memory and fluid intelligence: Evidence for a developmental cascade. Psychological Science, 7, 237-241.
20. Heitz, R.P., & Engle, R.W. (2007). Focusing the spotlight: Individual differences in visual attention control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 217-240.
21. Jensen, A.R. (1998). The g factor. The science of mental ability. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger.
22. Kail, R., & Salthouse, T.A. (1994). Processing speed as a mental capacity. Acta Psychologica, 86, 199-225.
23. Kane, M.J., Hambrick, D.Z., Tuholski, S.W., Wilhelm, O., Payne, T.W., & Engle, R.W. (2004). The generality of working memory capacity: A latent-variable approach to verbal and visuospatial memory span and reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, 133, 189-217.
24. Kyllonen, P.C., & Christal, R.E. (1990). Reasoning ability is (Little more than) working-memory capacity. Intelligence, 14, 389-433.
25. Miyake, A., Friedman, N.P., Rettinger, D.A., Shah, P., & Hegarty, M. (2001). How are visuospatial working memory, executive functioning and spatial abilities related? A latent-variable analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology; General, 130, 621-640.
26. Oberauer, K., Süß, H., Schulze, R., Wilhelm, O., & Wittmann, W. (2000). Working memory capacity. Facets of a cognitive ability construct. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 1017-1045.
27. Simon, J.R. (1969). Reactions toward the source of stimulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 81, 174-176.
28. Süß, H., Oberauer, K., Wittman, W., Wilhelm, O., & Schulze, R. (2002). Working memory capacity explains reasoning ability-and a little bit more. Intelligence, 30, 261-288.
29. Thurstone, L. (1938). Primary mental abilities. Psychometric Monographs, 1.
30. Unsworth, N., & Engle, R.W. (2007). On the division of short-term memory and working memory: An examination of simple and complex span and their relation to higher order abilities. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 1037-1066.