Neural connections may underlie intelligence in birds
The health and science-oriented magazine STAT has an article from Sharon Begley on recent research that looks at bird intelligence: “Brainiacs, not birdbrain...
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Forget EQ. Forget ‘Machiavellian intelligence’.
Evan MacLean and colleagues write this week in PNAS about the evolution of self-control.
Link parade, 2
Ben Phelan at Slate writes about the recent evolution of lactase persistence: “The Most Spectacular Mutation in Recent Human History”.
Quote: Jerison on animal intelligence
Harry Jerison, famous researcher of brain sizes across classes and orders of animals, commented on the relation of “encephalization” to the intelligence of a...
A debate: information overload?
If you’re looking for a way to waste your time today, you might check out The Economist’s online debate, which focuses on the question of whether the world i...
IQ, brain size and genetics in children
Dienekes points to a study by Marieke van Leeuwen and colleagues, in which they assess the phenotypic correlation between IQ and brain volume in a sample of ...
Working out how smart brains work
Scientific American Mind has an interesting article in the September issue, called “High-aptitude minds”. The article ponders explanations for how smart brai...
Numbers, Amazon-style
In last week’s Science, Stanislas Dehaene and colleagues describe the relation of cultural invention to “universal intuition” about mathematical logic:
Mad alligators and, insert cliché here
On the topic of how to measure intelligence in different species, I found this passage on pp. 256-257 of Georg Streidter's textbook:
Are British kids getting dumber?
That seems to be the import of this story in the Times Online:
Intelligence in the age of the internet
CNET is running a series of articles on the kind of intelligence required for the world of changing technology. The first installment starts thusly:
Will Mozart make you smarter?
As the new semester gets underway, it's a good time to think of ways to improve all those assignments I will soon be reading. Few are as pain-free as listen...
Gene linkages with IQ
A paper by Danielle Posthuma and colleagues (2005) reports on a map survey of the human genome looking for loci that may be linked to IQ. They find two sign...
Deep, dark secrets of his and her brains
An article of that title by Robert Lee Hotz of the LA Times is on the Yahoo News site. It is a profile of neuroscientist Sandra Witelson (McMaster Universit...
Lifting all boats
James R. Flynn is a social scientist at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Beginning in 1981, Flynn performed a series of statistical analyses on the res...