Can fluid intelligence be reduced to 'simple' short-term storage?

Intelligence

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 473-480

  Martínez, Kenia ^a   Burgaleta, Miguel ^a   Román, Francisco J ^a   Escorial, Sergio ^b   Shih, Pei Chun ^a   Quiroga, M Ángeles ^b   Colom, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Executive updating; Intelligence; Processing speed; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455154393     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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