High fluid intelligence is characterized by flexible allocation of attentional resources: Evidence from EEG
Recently, the integrated control hypothesis (Lu et al., 2020) was proposed to explain the relationship between fluid intelligence (Gf) and attentional resource allocation. This hypothesis suggested that individuals with higher Gf tend to flexibly and adaptively allocate their limited resources accor...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Neuropsychologia 2022-01, Vol.164, p.108094-108094, Article 108094 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Recently, the integrated control hypothesis (Lu et al., 2020) was proposed to explain the relationship between fluid intelligence (Gf) and attentional resource allocation. This hypothesis suggested that individuals with higher Gf tend to flexibly and adaptively allocate their limited resources according to the task type and task difficulty rather than simply exert more or fewer resources in any condition. To examine this hypothesis, the present study used electroencephalogram (EEG) indicators (i.e., frontal theta-ERS and parietal-occipital alpha-ERD) as the measurements of participants' resource allocation during the exploration task and exploitation task with different difficulties. The results found that higher Gf individuals tend to allocate fewer resources in all difficulty levels in the exploitation task compared to average Gf participants. In contrast, in the exploration task, higher Gf participants would allocate more resources in the medium- and high-difficulty levels than average Gf participants, but this phenomenon was only found in males. These findings provided supportive evidence for the integrated control hypothesis that flexible and adaptive attentional control ability are important characteristics of human intelligence.
•The relationship between fluid intelligence and attentional resource allocation remains unclear.•Both task type and task difficulty may influence this relationship.•EEG indicators (theta-ERS and alpha-ERD) were used to measure attentional resource allocation.•The proposed Integrated Control Hypothesis was preliminarily supported by the data.•Flexible and adaptive resource allocation is a feature of high intelligence. |
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ISSN: | 0028-3932 1873-3514 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108094 |