The nature of fluid intelligence was investigated by identifying variables that were, and were not, significantly related to this construct. Relevant information was obtained from three sources: re-analyses of data from previous studies, a study in which 791 adults performed storage-plus-processing working memory tasks, and a study in which 236 adults performed a variety of working memory, upda...

Report generation is an integral part of many analytical tasks such as intelligence analysis. Thus, an important issue in developing cognitive assistants for analytical tasks is how the cognitive assistant may help a human analyst in generating reports. In this paper, we first describe the task of report generation in intelligence analysis. Then, we describe a scheme for enabling a cognitive as...

Article history: Received 11 October 2013 Received in revised form 27 January 2015 Accepted 1 May 2015 Available online xxxx It is unclear whether different elementary cognitive tasks (ECTs) are associated with intelligence because these tasks tap the same basic cognitive process (suggesting a single mental speed factor) or different ones (suggesting several mental speed factors), as it is not ...

The cognitive car can be regarded as the future form of urban vehicles. Cognitive car implies intelligence not in an isolated form that involves just internal functionality, but also in the context of group that would include neighbouring vehicles and an intelligent transportation system (ITS). The cognitive car would adjust itself for optimum operation (in terms of safety, fuel, traffic, and e...

Thinking is biological work and involves the allocation of cognitive resources. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of fluid intelligence on the allocation of cognitive resources while processing low-level and high-level cognitive tasks. Individuals with high versus average fluid intelligence performed low-level choice reaction time tasks and highlevel geometric analogy tasks. W...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to identify common genetic variants that are associated with human intelligence or general cognitive ability. METHOD We performed a genome-wide association analysis with a dense set of 1 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and quantitative intelligence scores within an ancestrally homogeneous family sample of 656 individuals with at le...

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision-making, we first illustrate key physiological and psychologi...

The paper investigates the relationships of cognitive human capital (a.k.a. intelligence) with growth in per capita GDP between 1975 and 2009. The following results were obtained: (1) Measures of IQ and school achievement, but not length of schooling, predict economic growth; (2) IQ and school achievement are highly correlated, and can be combined into a composite measure of intelligence; (3) T...

Smart homes are expected to promote productivity and enhance living experience, especially for old adults. To achieve this, the level of user interface intelligence should be designed to meet the needs of users and tasks. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of user interface intelligence level on user performances for different tasks and different users. Two objectives were purs...