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Science 14 March 1997:
Vol. 275. no. 5306, pp. 1581 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5306.1581
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Ingrid Wickelgren

People often think of intelligence as quickness of thought or propensity for flashes of insight. But a variety of evidence suggests that such indicators of intelligence as language comprehension and problem-solving ability may instead depend on the ability to juggle lots of possibilities in the mind--that is, on working memory.

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