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Overview

Roberto Colom is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Their research domain centers primarily on psychology and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on cognitive abilities and the testing of these capacities.

The scientist has contributed to various topics within these fields, including:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping

Roberto Colom's work spans several subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Education.

Their recent papers include the following publications:

  • "Generational intelligence tests score changes in Spain: Are we asking the right question?", 2023, Intelligence
  • "Can a Neandertal meditate? An evolutionary view of attention as a core component of general intelligence", 2022, Intelligence
  • "Testing the structure of human cognitive ability using evidence obtained from the impact of brain lesions over abilities", 2021, Intelligence
  • "A new beginning of intelligence research. Designing the playground", 2021, Intelligence
  • "Brain resilience across the general cognitive ability distribution: Evidence from structural connectivity", 2021, Brain Structure and Function

They have frequent coauthors including Richard J. Haier and Earl Hunt, each collaborating on 16 publications, as well as Sergio Escorial with 4 collaborations, and Emiliano Bruner and Kenia Martínez with 3 each.

The majority of Roberto Colom's publications appear in venues such as Intelligence, Brain Structure and Function, Journal of Intelligence, Anuario de Psicología Jurídica, and Neuroscience.

Roberto Colom has authored books including The Science of Human Intelligence, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Working memory is (almost) perfectly predicted by g

    Roberto Colom;Irene Rebollo;Antonio Palacios;Manuel Juan-Espinosa

  • An integrative architecture for general intelligence and executive function revealed by lesion mapping.

    Aron K. Barbey;Roberto Colom;Jeffrey Solomon;Frank Krueger

  • Working memory and intelligence are highly related constructs, but why?

    Roberto Colom;Francisco J. Abad;Mª Ángeles Quiroga;Pei Chun Shih

  • Human intelligence and brain networks

    Roberto Colom;Sherif Karama;Rex E. Jung;Richard J. Haier

  • Distributed neural system for general intelligence revealed by lesion mapping

    J. Gläscher;D. Rudrauf;R. Colom;L. K. Paul

  • Distributed brain sites for the g-factor of intelligence.

    Roberto Colom;Rex E. Jung;Richard J. Haier

  • Gray matter correlates of fluid, crystallized, and spatial intelligence: Testing the P-FIT model

    Roberto Colom;Richard J. Haier;Kevin Head;Juan Álvarez-Linera

  • Memory span and general intelligence: A latent-variable approach

    Roberto Colom;Francisco J. Abad;Irene Rebollo;Pei Chun Shih

  • Complex span tasks, simple span tasks, and cognitive abilities: a reanalysis of key studies.

    Roberto Colom;Irene Rebollo;Francisco J. Abad;Pei Chun Shih

  • Fluid intelligence, memory span, and temperament difficulties predict academic performance of young adolescents

    Roberto Colom;Sergio Escorial;Pei Chun Shih;Jesús Privado

  • Intelligence predicts scholastic achievement irrespective of SES factors: Evidence from Brazil

    Roberto Colom;Carmen E. Flores-Mendoza

  • Cortical thickness correlates of specific cognitive performance accounted for by the general factor of intelligence in healthy children aged 6 to 18

    Sherif Karama;Roberto Colom;Wendy Johnson;Ian J. Deary

  • Working memory and intelligence

    Roberto Colom;Carmen Flores-Mendoza;Irene Rebollo

  • Intelligence, working memory, and multitasking performance

    Roberto Colom;Agustín Martínez-Molina;Pei Chun Shih;José Santacreu

  • The Generational Intelligence Gains Are Caused by Decreasing Variance in the Lower Half of the Distribution: Supporting Evidence for the Nutrition Hypothesis.

    Roberto Colom;Josep Ma Lluis-Font;Antonio Andrés-Pueyo

  • Adaptive n-back training does not improve fluid intelligence at the construct level: Gains on individual tests suggest that training may enhance visuospatial processing

    Roberto Colom;Francisco J. Román;Francisco J. Abad;Pei Chun Shih

  • Negligible sex differences in general intelligence

    Roberto Colom;Manuel Juan-Espinosa;Francisco Abad;Luı́s F Garcı́a

  • Cognitive ability changes and dynamics of cortical thickness development in healthy children and adolescents

    Miguel Burgaleta;Wendy Johnson;Deborah P. Waber;Roberto Colom

  • Dorsolateral prefrontal contributions to human intelligence.

    Aron K. Barbey;Roberto Colom;Jordan Grafman

  • General intelligence and memory span: Evidence for a common neuroanatomic framework

    Roberto Colom;Rex E. Jung;Richard J. Haier

  • Architecture of fluid intelligence and working memory revealed by lesion mapping.

    Aron K. Barbey;Roberto Colom;Erick J. Paul;Jordan Grafman

  • Rapid Communication Distributed brain sites for the g-factor of intelligence

    Roberto Colom;Rex E. Jung;Richard J. Haier

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Haier
Richard J. Haier University of California, Irvine
Aron K. Barbey
Aron K. Barbey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jordan Grafman
Jordan Grafman Northwestern University
Manuel Martín-Loeches
Manuel Martín-Loeches Complutense University of Madrid
Susanne M. Jaeggi
Susanne M. Jaeggi University of California, Irvine
Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson University of Edinburgh
Emilio Ferrer
Emilio Ferrer University of California, Davis
Anton Aluja
Anton Aluja University of Lleida
William S. Kremen
William S. Kremen University of California, San Diego
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic University College London

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