Working memory is the cognitive system that holds a small amount of information in mind, briefly, in a way that allows you to use it. It is the mental workspace where you keep the first half of a sentence available while reading the second half, the running list of options …
The g factor — Charles Spearman’s name for the common variance that runs through all cognitive tests — is the most replicated and the most contested construct in the science of human intelligence. Whenever a sufficiently varied battery of mental tests is administered to a sufficiently varied sample of people, …
