ArticleMemory & cognition2019
Validating the relation-monitoring task as a measure of relational integration and predictor of fluid intelligence.
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- Relational Integration and Attentional Control Are Crucial to Fluid Intelligence Together but Not Alone-An Experimental Investigation of Individual Difference in Relational Monitoring Processes.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Fluid Intelligence Emerges from Representing Relations.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
- Intelligence IS Cognitive Flexibility: Why Multilevel Models of Within-Individual Processes Are Needed to Realise This.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
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Abstract
The relation-monitoring task (RMT) has demonstrated a remarkable ability to predict higher-order cognitive abilities such as fluid intelligence, despite its apparent simplicity: It requires no storage over time and no advanced mental manipulation. Instead, the task is theorized to measure relational integration: the process of constructing mental relations between independent elements. Although several studies have established a link between the RMT and fluid intelligence, few studies have investigated the task parameters that contribute to the task's ability to predict higher-order performance. In the present experiment, we manipulated relational complexity and attentional-control demands by varying visual interference and the amount of new information presented on each trial. Even the most basic version of the task (loading primarily on relational integration) explained substantial variance in fluid intelligence, above and beyond the variance already predicted by traditional working memory tasks. We extended prior results by suggesting an incremental effect of attentional-control demands that contributes (but is not imperative) to the RMT's relationship with fluid intelligence. These findings support the relational integration hypothesis, the theory that what fundamentally limits fluid intelligence is the capacity for relational integration.
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