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Working Memory Capacity, Perceptual Speed, and Fluid Intelligence: An Eye Movement Analysis

dc.contributor.advisor Engle, Randall W.
dc.contributor.author Redick, Thomas Scott en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Corballis, Paul
dc.contributor.committeeMember Spieler, Daniel
dc.contributor.department Psychology en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2007-03-27T18:16:37Z
dc.date.available 2007-03-27T18:16:37Z
dc.date.issued 2006-11-20 en_US
dc.description.abstract Research has focused on the potential cognitive determinants of individual and developmental differences in intelligence. Two competing views influenced by information-processing theory propose important roles for the constructs of working memory capacity and perceptual speed, respectively. This study aimed to clarify the relationship between these constructs by examining the performance of younger adults who were high and low in working memory capacity on an experimental version of traditional perceptual speed tasks. The results suggested that working memory capacity is important for performance on perceptual speed tasks because of the attention and memory demands of these tasks. Eye-tracking measures corroborated the behavioral data, which suggest that individual differences on perceptual speed tasks are the result of individual differences in working memory capacity in healthy, younger adults. en_US
dc.description.degree M.S. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14015
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Individual differences en_US
dc.subject Processing speed en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Human information processing en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Short-term memory en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Cognition Testing en_US
dc.title Working Memory Capacity, Perceptual Speed, and Fluid Intelligence: An Eye Movement Analysis en_US
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dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Engle, Randall W.
local.contributor.corporatename College of Sciences
local.contributor.corporatename School of Psychology
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