Culture-Fair Cognitive Ability Assessment

@article{Verney2005CultureFairCA,
  title={Culture-Fair Cognitive Ability Assessment},
  author={Steven P. Verney and Eric L. Granholm and Sandra P. Marshall and Vanessa L. Malcarne and Dennis P. Saccuzzo},
  journal={Assessment},
  year={2005},
  volume={12},
  pages={303 - 319},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:31024437}
}
This study investigated the relationships between culture, information processing efficiency, and general cognitive capacities in samples of Caucasian and Mexican American college students to suggest that information processing and psychophysiological approaches may be helpful in developing culture-fair cognitive ability measures.
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