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Attentional disengagement is a strongly predictive factor of general cognitive ability: intelligence demands flexibility
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Attentional disengagement is a strongly predictive factor of general cognitive ability: intelligence demands flexibility
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Crawford
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Dylan William
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1994-
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Dylan William Crawford
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Matzel
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Louis D
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Samuels
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Benjamin
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Benjamin Samuels
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Kusnecov
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Alexander
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Alexander Kusnecov
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Rutgers University
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School of Graduate Studies
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General cognitive ability (or general intelligence; g) has been widely recognized to influence a broad array of cognitive abilities of both humans and mice. Working memory has also become recognized as a strong predictor of g in both humans and mice. Recent evidence suggests that a component of working memory, selective attention, is responsible for the relationship between working memory and g. In three experiments, we test a hypothesis that emerges from human behavioral studies which suggests that attentional disengagement, a component of selective attention, critically mediates its relationship with g, and therefore should be most strongly predictive of general cognitive performance. Experiments 1 and 2 both assess the factor loadings of selective disengagement tasks on a general cognitive factor derived from larger batteries of cognitive tests and finds that selective disengagement loads more highly than any other measures that place less explicit demands on disengagement. In experiment 3 we demonstrate how groups with known differences in cognitive abilities (young vs. old mice) differ significantly on measures of attentional disengagement. Our results provide support for the hypothesis that disengagement acts as the latent variable that determines intelligence.
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Psychology
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Attentional disengagement
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Attention
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M.S.
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ETD graduate
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Dylan
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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