Is Intelligence Innate and Fixed?

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 10, 2007 |

Giv­en the recent James Wat­son “race and IQ” con­tro­ver­sy, I took on to read Stephan Jay Gould’s clas­sic book The Mis­mea­sure of Man, in which he debunks IQ (and the under­ly­ing “g”) as mea­sure of defined, innate, “intel­li­gence”. Fas­ci­nat­ing read­ing overall, very tech­ni­cal in some areas. The key take-away? In the last chap­ter, A Pos­i­tive Con­clu­sion, he…

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We need 10 brains to process all this information…

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 1, 2007 |

A blog car­ni­val is a col­lec­tion of good blog posts around a spe­cif­ic top­ic, pub­lished usu­al­ly every 2 or 4 weeks. This time many car­ni­vals includ­ed some of our arti­cles, so we have a longer than usu­al list. Take a look at the top­ics you may be inter­est­ed in. The first 5 car­ni­vals did the most…

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Resources for brain fitness and applied neuroplasticity

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 26, 2007

Here you can find a range of resources for life­long brain fit­ness and applied neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: Brain Train­ing Pro­gram Eval­u­a­tion Check­list Brain & Mind Inter­view Series Online Course: How to Be Your Own Brain Fit­ness Coach AARP’s Brain Fit­ness Best Books List Sharp­Brains blog Free, Month­ly Sharp­Brains e‑Newsletter

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Blog Carnivals, Thanksgiving and Mission Accomplishing

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 20, 2006 |

Big par­ty today. Car­ni­vals everywhere.  Car­o­line and I admit we are quite biased. We see the world through our own lens­es. Which, these days, means a lot of pas­sion for the sci­ence-based Brain Fit­ness Rev­o­lu­tion. We have been try­ing hard to com­bine fun brain teasers with seri­ous posts on how brain research is start­ing to…

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