Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

Lecture | Randy Engle | Ability to control attention: The secret sauce in the relationship between working knowledge and fluid intelligence.

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ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO (https://youtu.be/540kdTOj7m8) Lecture | Randy Engle

Episode Notes

Working memory capacity and fluid intelligence are highly related as shown by labs around the world and in any populations.  My recent work demonstrates that individual differences in ability to control attention underlies this relationship.  Attention control is both a state and a trait variable. Measures of attention control are highly reliable and valid predictors of performance in multitasking and other complex cognitive tasks. In addition, environmental variables such as sleep deprivation and psychopathology lead to reduced capability to control attention which can, in turn, lead to reduced cognitive ability.

Intro Music: Small Acts of Devotion feat. Ashkay-Naresh