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My understanding is this: The greater the amount of working memory you have, the more efficient your cognition is. You can reach more conclusions / insights, a
by nullsense 4y ago
My understanding is this:
The greater the amount of working memory you have, the more efficient your cognition is. You can reach more conclusions / insights, and connect more dots per unit time than those with poorer working memory. Hence fluid intelligence mediates the rate at which crystalized intelligence can be acquired. The more crystalized intelligence you acquire, the more efficiently you can make use of the working memory you have as you have concepts that effectively compress a tonne of information you would otherwise have to load in and out of working memory if you didn't have them. Regardless of other factors, that particular feedback loop is going to operate the same for everyone, right?
- bloqs 4y ago100% correct
- comfypotato 4y agoI hope both of you are appropriately accurate here. This comment has influenced me! I appreciate the summary of this concept of intelligence. I say this with no ill will, just purely out of interest: can you provide a source or relevant further reading? Obviously I can start the search myself, but I ask because your targeting will be much better.
- nullsense 4y ago"How Intelligence Happens" was a pretty good read.
- karp773 4y agoGenerally, yes. But there's also a factor of speed. Some people are naturally faster than others.
- nullsense 4y agoI've not dug into the primary research on this particular aspect, but I seem to recall reading in a second source at least something to the effect that physical size of the neurons is also a factor!
- nullsense 4y agoSpent some time reading through "The Neuroscience of Intelligence" last night as I got curious about this again. On the weight of evidence it appears to be related to larger brain volume combined with shorter pathways within and between brain networks. Which makes total sense when you think about it.
- sandworm101 4y agoTrue, but "working memory" is not a product created by reading books or attending classes. It is a biological reality and is built through any experience. A shepherd tending a flock builds working memory. A trucker driving a new route builds working memory. You might remember walking through a field. Your dog remembers the smell of every blade of grass in that field. Crystalized intelligence emerges from all experiences that exercise working memory. Reading and wrote memorization is one means, and probably not the most efficient.
- nullsense 4y ago>It is a biological reality and is built through any experience Those two things don't comport with one another. You seem confused. Working memory is indeed a biological reality. You don't "build" working memory. Each Individual has their own fixed capacity for short-term working memory rooted in biology. According to "The Neuroscience of Intelligence", on the weight of evidence higher intelligence comes down to larger brain volume combined with shorter pathways within and between brain networks. It's not hard to imagine the effect those two things have on working memory. What I was saying is that this innate capacity for working memory is the basis for a positive feedback loop where the cognitively rich get cognitively richer. One's working memory isn't changed by learning things, rather the more things one has learned, the less work one has to do to learn additional / related things.
- 2snakes 4y agoThere is also the expert effect though where working memory greatly exceeds normal… for experts.