Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-p9bg8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-22T14:17:12.307Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

There is more to fluid intelligence than working memory capacity and executive function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2006

Dennis Garlick  and
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Dennis Garlick*
Affiliation:
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA92037. http://www.cnl.salk.edu
Terrence J. Sejnowski*
Affiliation:
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA92037. http://www.cnl.salk.edu
*
[email protected]
[email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Although working memory capacity and executive function contribute to human intelligence, we question whether there is an equivalence between them and fluid intelligence. We contend that any satisfactory neurobiological explanation of fluid intelligence needs to include abstraction as an important computational component of brain processing.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 134 - 135
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)