The Relationship of Attention and Intelligence

Schweizer, Karl

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1210-7_15

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“…This outcome is consistent with the idea of a two-process model of mental speed put forward by Schweizer [56]. In his approach, Schweizer proposed that measures of speed of information processing are composed of both rather basic, sensory-perceptual aspects of speed (such as speed of signal detection) as well as attention-paced aspects.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…While the basic aspects are considered to be independent of the level of mental activity required to perform the cognitive task, the attention-paced aspects are assumed to vary as a function of the task demands on attentional resources. Both aspects of speed are related to psychometric intelligence but the basic aspects only weakly compared to the attention-paced aspects of speed of information processing [56]. This notion may provide a tentative theoretical framework to account for our results.…”

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Validity of the Worst Performance Rule as a Function of Task Complexity and Psychometric g: On the Crucial Role of g Saturation

Rammsayer

Troche

2016

J. Intell.

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Within the mental speed approach to intelligence, the worst performance rule (WPR) states that the slower trials of a reaction time (RT) task reveal more about intelligence than do faster trials. There is some evidence that the validity of the WPR may depend on high g saturation of both the RT task and the intelligence test applied. To directly assess the concomitant influence of task complexity, as an indicator of task-related g load, and g saturation of the psychometric measure of intelligence on the WPR, data from 245 younger adults were analyzed. To obtain a highly g-loaded measure of intelligence, psychometric g was derived from 12 intelligence scales. This g factor was contrasted with the mental ability scale that showed the smallest factor loading on g. For experimental manipulation of g saturation of the mental speed task, three versions of a Hick RT task with increasing levels of task complexity were applied. While there was no indication for a general WPR effect when a low g-saturated measure of intelligence was used, the WPR could be confirmed for the highly g-loaded measure of intelligence. In this latter condition, the correlation between worst performance and psychometric g was also significantly higher for the more complex 1-bit and 2-bit conditions than for the 0-bit condition of the Hick task. Our findings clearly indicate that the WPR depends primarily on the g factor and, thus, only holds for the highly g-loaded measure of psychometric intelligence.

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Validity of the Worst Performance Rule as a Function of Task Complexity and Psychometric g: On the Crucial Role of g Saturation

Rammsayer

Troche

2016

J. Intell.

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“…Schweizer, 2010). The role of working memory was instrumental in this development since it required the consideration of attentional functions such as monitoring, supervision and coordination (Baddeley, 1986).…”

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How does attention relate to the ability-specific and position-specific components of reasoning measured by APM?

Ren

Goldhammer

Moosbrugger

et al. 2012

Learning and Individual Differences

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“…The latter fact suggests, not surprisingly, that the individual differences in analogical reasoning may constitute a more complex phenomenon than just the capacity of the underlying WM mechanism. Factors beyond WM that possibly contribute to reasoning may include attention (Schweizer, 2010), long-term memory (Unsworth, Fukuda, Awh, & Vogel, 2014), and learning (Chuderski, 2013;Kaufman, DeYoung, Gray, Brown, & Mackintosh, 2009), as well as the differences in strategies adopted to cope with a task (Vigneau, Cassieu, & Bors, 2006).…”

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From neural oscillations to reasoning ability: Simulating the effect of the theta-to-gamma cycle length ratio on individual scores in a figural analogy test

Chuderski

Andrelczyk

2015

Cognitive Psychology

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The Relationship of Attention and Intelligence

Cited by 26 publications

References 70 publications

Validity of the Worst Performance Rule as a Function of Task Complexity and Psychometric g: On the Crucial Role of g Saturation

Validity of the Worst Performance Rule as a Function of Task Complexity and Psychometric g: On the Crucial Role of g Saturation

How does attention relate to the ability-specific and position-specific components of reasoning measured by APM?

From neural oscillations to reasoning ability: Simulating the effect of the theta-to-gamma cycle length ratio on individual scores in a figural analogy test

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