Reaction time (RT) and movement time (MT), and intraindividual variability in RT and MT, measured in elementary cognitive tasks at three levels of complexity of information processing, administered to 213 college males, show nonsignificant correlations with body build, specifically the ponderal index, hence not replicating the results of a study by Smith and Boyarsky (1943).
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