Individual differences in working memory capacity explain the relationship between general discrimination ability and psychometric intelligence

Intelligence

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-50

  Troche, Stefan J ^a   Wagner, Felicitas L ^a   Voelke, Annik E ^a   Roebers, Claudia M ^a   Rammsayer, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

General discrimination ability; Psychometric intelligence; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896921221     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2014.02.009     Document Type: Article

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