Short-term memory for faces relates to general intelligence moderately

Intelligence

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 96-104

  Gignac, Gilles E ^a   Shankaralingam, Mahesh ^a   Walker, Kipling ^a   Kilpatrick, Philippe ^a  

^a TheUniversity of Western Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

CHC theory; Face identity recognition; Intelligence; Prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969509093     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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