Performance on auditory and visual temporal information processing is related to psychometric intelligence

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-14

  Haldemann, Judith ^a   Stauffer, Corinne ^a   Troche, Stefan ^a   Rammsayer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intelligence; Sensory modality; Temporal resolution power; Time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455175181     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.08.032     Document Type: Article

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