Complexity and compositionality in fluid intelligence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 20, 2017, Pages 5295-5299

  Duncan, John ^a,b   Chylinski, Daphne ^a   Mitchell, Daniel J ^a   Bhandari, Apoorva ^c  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive compositionally; Fluid intelligence; Focused attention; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DRAWING; FLUID INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; WORKING MEMORY; FEMALE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 85019943753     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1621147114     Document Type: Article

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