Compression in Working Memory and Its Relationship With Fluid Intelligence
- Others:
- Université de Franche-Comté (UFC) ; Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)
- BCL, équipe Langage et Cognition ; Bases, Corpus, Langage (UMR 7320 - UCA / CNRS) (BCL) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)
- Laboratoire de Didactique André Revuz (LDAR (EA_4434)) ; Université d'Artois (UA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP) ; Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN) ; Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)
- Laboratoire de Psychologie : Cognition, Comportement, Communication (LP3C - EA1285) ; Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2) ; Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IBSHS) ; Université de Brest (UBO)
- ANR-17-CE28-0013,CHUNKED,Chunking : une étude du rôle critique de la compression de l'information dans la cognition(2017)
Description
Working memory has been shown to be strongly related to fluid intelligence; however, our goal is to shed further light on the process of information compression in working memory as a determining factor of fluid intelligence. Our main hypothesis was that compression in working memory is an excellent indicator for studying the relationship between working‐memory capacity and fluid intelligence because both depend on the optimization of storage capacity. Compressibility of memoranda was estimated using an algorithmic complexity metric. The results showed that compressibility can be used to predict working‐memory performance and that fluid intelligence is well predicted by the ability to compress information. We conclude that the ability to compress information in working memory is the reason why both manipulation and retention of information are linked to intelligence. This result offers a new concept of intelligence based on the idea that compression and intelligence are equivalent problems.
Abstract
International audience
Additional details
- URL
- https://hal.univ-rennes2.fr/hal-01873321
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-01873321v1
- Origin repository
- UNICA