How Executive Processes Explain the Overlap between Working Memory Capacity and Fluid Intelligence: A Test of Process Overlap Theory

Working memory capacity (WMC) and fluid intelligence (Gf) are highly correlated, but what accounts for this relationship remains elusive. Process-overlap theory (POT) proposes that the positive manifold is mainly caused by the overlap of domain-general executive processes which are involved in a bat...

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Main Authors: Tengfei Wang, Chenyu Li, Xuezhu Ren, Karl Schweizer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
Series:Journal of Intelligence
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/9/2/21