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Chuprikova NJ.
Reaction time and intelligence: why they are correlating (Concerning brain discriminative ability)
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Inner psychologo-phisiological causes of
correlation between reaction time and intelligence
are discussed. The author argues that one of
fundamental indices of intelligence is brain
discriminative ability: if psychic contents is
syncretic and structures are global-diffuse, then
high levels of synthesis, generalisation and
abstraction are impossible. The notion that
reaction time and stimulus identification time
form good laboratory model for the exposure of
brain discriminative ability, that is for the
ability to distingwish and differentiate sensory,
perceptive and conceptual contents is
substantiated. A hypothesis of neuro-phisiological
mechanism of brain discriminative ability,
depending on culture, education and environment in
general, and its morphological basis, independent
of these, is offered.
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