The sources of the relationship between sustained attention and reasoning

Intelligence

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-58

  Ren, Xuezhu ^a,b   Schweizer, Karl ^b   Xu, Fen ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Executive control; Intelligence; Learning; Reasoning; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869745584     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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