Intelligence articles from March 1999

Intelligence archives from March 1999

Sex Differences in Intelligence and Brain Size: A Developmental Theory.
March 1, 1999... It is a principle of scientific thinking that special attention is required when an anomaly is found in an established theory. An anomaly tells us that something is wrong with the theory and that the theory needs to be modified. In 1992, just...

The Modified Blink Reflex and Individual Differences in Speed of Processing.
March 1, 1999... USING THE MODIFIED BLINK REFLEX (MBR) TO INDEX INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SPEED OF PROCESSING Over the last 2 decades a large body of evidence has accumulated that suggests that a relationship exists between the speed with which information...

Inspection Time Correlates with General Speed of Processing but not with Fluid Ability.
March 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION There have been two substantial reviews that have established that there is a moderately strong relationship between inspection time (IT) and IQ (Nettelbeck, 1987; Kranzler & Jensen, 1989), a conclusion confirmed by two recent...

Generalizability of Component Processes in Intelligence as Revealed by Latency Measures.
March 1, 1999... Modern psychometric theories of intelligence are characterized by a hierarchical structure with three levels of generality: a general factor, group factors, and specific factors (e.g., Carroll, 1993; Gustafsson, 1984, 1988). In particular, the...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain Size/IQ Relations in Turkish University Students.
March 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Since at least the time of Paul Broca (1824-1880) and Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) attempts have been made to answer the question whether intelligence can be predicted from brain size. For example, Galton (1888) reported...