Völke, Annik E.; Troche, Stefan J.; Rammsayer, Thomas H.; Wagner, Felicitas L.; Roebers, Claudia M. (2013). Sensory discrimination, working memory and intelligence in 9-year-old and 11-year-old children. Infant and child development, 22(5), pp. 523-538. Wiley 10.1002/icd.1803
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More than a century ago, Galton and Spearman suggested that there was a functional relationship between sensory discrimination ability and intelligence. Studies have since been able to confirm a close relationship between general discrimination ability (GDA) and IQ. The aim of the present study was to assess whether this strong relationship between GDA and IQ could be due to working memory (WM) demands of GDA tasks. A sample of 140 children (seventy 9-year-olds and seventy 11-year-olds) was studied. Results showed that there was a significant overlap between WM, GDA and fluid intelligence. Furthermore, results also revealed that WM could not explain the relationship between GDA and fluid intelligence as such, but that it acted as a bottleneck of information processing, limiting the influence of GDA on the prediction of fluid intelligence. Specifically, GDA's influence on the prediction of intelligence was only visible when WM capacity was above a certain level.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Developmental Psychology 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics |
UniBE Contributor: |
Völke, Annik, Troche, Stefan, Rammsayer, Thomas, Wagner, Felicitas Lony, Roebers, Claudia |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education |
ISSN: |
1522-7227 |
Publisher: |
Wiley |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Jeannine Sebel |
Date Deposited: |
24 Apr 2014 14:32 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:30 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1002/icd.1803 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
fluid intelligence, sensory discrimination, working memory, childhood |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.45237 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/45237 |
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