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| Relation of task switching to speed, age, and fluid intelligence | | Author(s) | Timothy A Salthouse, Nathanael Fristoe, Katheryn E McGuthry |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 3, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp 445-461 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Reasoning ; Mental speed ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Two studies were conducted to investigate whether a meaningful task-switching construct could be identified and, if so, to determine how it was related to measures of higher order cognition and to adult age. Both studies revealed that measures of task switching were moderately correlated across different combinations of tasks and that a switching construct could be distinguished from a construct reflecting processing speed. The results of the second study revealed that although the task-switching construct was related to age and to measures of episodic memory, inductive reasoning, and spatial visualisation, most of the relations between the switching construct and both age and other measures of cognition were shared with other variables. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981113405 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: DC: DG: 7T |
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