Why is working memory related to fluid intelligence? From: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Salthouse, Timothy A; Pink, Jeffrey E | Copyright Psychonomic Society, Inc. Apr 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Nearly 1,000 adults performed a battery of cognitive tests and working memory tasks requiring simultaneous storage and processing of information. Because the amount of to-be-remembered information, or set size, varied randomly across trials, the relation between fluid intelligence and working memory could be examined across different levels of complexity and across successive trials in the working memory tasks. Strong influences of fluid intelligence were apparent in the simplest versions and...

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