{"id":235018,"date":"2026-04-11T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/longitudinal-study-links-associative-learning-gains-to-later-improvements-in-fluid-intelligence"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:05:22","slug":"longitudinal-study-links-associative-learning-gains-to-later-improvements-in-fluid-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/longitudinal-study-links-associative-learning-gains-to-later-improvements-in-fluid-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Longitudinal study links associative learning gains to later improvements in fluid intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/longitudinal-study-links-associative-learning-gains-to-later-improvements-in-fluid-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As children grow, their capacity to memorize associations and their ability to solve novel problems actively reinforce each other. New research suggests that these core cognitive skills develop together in a bidirectional loop during elementary school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As children grow, their capacity to memorize associations and their ability to solve novel problems actively reinforce each other. New research suggests that these core cognitive skills develop together in a bidirectional loop during elementary school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}