There's more to the working memory capacity-fluid intelligence relationship than just secondary memory

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 931-937

  Unsworth, Nash ^a   Brewer, Gene A ^a   Spillers, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74849101387     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.5.931     Document Type: Article

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