Decay of iconic memory traces is related to psychometric intelligence: A fixed-links modeling approach

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 699-704

  Miller, Robert ^a   Rammsayer, Thomas H ^b   Schweizer, Karl ^c   Troche, Stefan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fixed links model; Iconic memory; Psychometric intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249232018     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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