-
Recent Posts
- Dyslexia Linked to Brain Communication Breakdown
- How poverty molds the brain: Poor neural processing of sound linked to lower maternal education
- Just a Few Years of Early Musical Training Benefits the Brain Later in Life
- The Effect of Grade Placement on English Language Learners’ Academic Achievement
- Associations between objectively measured physical activity and academic attainment in adolescents from a UK cohort
Archives
Top Posts & Pages
- Dyslexia Linked to Brain Communication Breakdown
- How poverty molds the brain: Poor neural processing of sound linked to lower maternal education
- Just a Few Years of Early Musical Training Benefits the Brain Later in Life
- The Effect of Grade Placement on English Language Learners’ Academic Achievement
- Associations between objectively measured physical activity and academic attainment in adolescents from a UK cohort
- Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind
- First Global Study Confirms Widely Held Practices On Science, Math, and Reading Education
- Ode to positive constructive daydreaming
- White matter microstructure correlates of mathematical giftedness and intelligence quotient
- Inner-ear disorders may cause hyperactivity
Tag Archives: intelligence
Ode to positive constructive daydreaming
A recent issue of the journal, Frontiers in Psychology, features a review article, “Ode to positive constructive daydreaming.” According to the article’s abstract: Nearly 60 years ago, Jerome L. Singer launched a groundbreaking research program into daydreaming (Singer, 1955, 1975, 2009) that presaged and … Continue reading
Researcher finds that poverty’s ‘cognitive cost’ translates to as many as ten IQ points
A recent article on the Phys.org website summarizes new work by Harvard researchers investigating the effects of poverty on intelligence quotient measurements. According to the article: The accumulation of those money woes and day-to-day worries leaves many low-income individuals not only struggling … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged cognition, Cognitive deficit, intelligence, intelligence quotient, IQ, poverty
Leave a comment
ABSTRACT A Strong Interactive Link between Sensory Discriminations and Intelligence
According to the abstract of this article, which appears in the May 23 issue of Current Biology: Early psychologists, including Galton, Cattell, and Spearman, proposed that intelligence and simple sensory discriminations are constrained by common neural processes, predicting a close link … Continue reading
Social Factors Can Affect Intelligence
In the New York Times, education writer Annie Murphy Paul interviews psychologists to provide insight into how academic performance is not just a factor of innate intelligence: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/intelligence-and-the-stereotype-threat.html?_r=0 ______________________________________________________________ In addition to providing occasional posts providing links to news from the … Continue reading
