Encoding strategy and not visual working memory capacity correlates with intelligence

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 641-647

  Cusack, Rhodri ^a   Lehmann, Manja ^a   Veldsman, Michele ^a   Mitchell, Daniel J ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74849095942     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.4.641     Document Type: Article

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