Posts Tagged ‘IQ’
Is the Internet making us dumber? (Nope, just different)
Is the Internet Really Making Us Dumber? (Der Spiegel): “In Germany, scores increase by about 3 IQ points each decade. In fact, the tests have to be adjusted every few years to keep up. The test currently used for children is called the WISC-IV. A person claiming to have an IQ of 130 needs to…
Read MoreBrain Spa Trend: Travel for Mental Fitness
Interesting trend mini-report prepared by InterContinental Hotels Group, quoting SharpBrains data. Trends that will influence 2012 (IHG press release): “BRAIN SPA: The desire to learn more will influence destination decisions. Brain Spa looks at our growing appetite to expand and keep our intellect in good health – in fact we are prepared to travel for it.…
Read MoreTop 40 Brain Fitness & Training Questions/ Course Registration Ends this Sunday
Let us share below a list of 40 common brain fitness, brain health, brain training questions that we will make sure to address during the upcoming online course, How to Be Your Own Brain Fitness Coach in 2012 (starts March 7th). The questions are sequenced by their approximate order of appearance in the syllabus. We look forward…
Read MoreEnhance Metacognition and Problem-Solving by Talking Out Loud to Yourself
The MC at the University of Michigan’s reunion dinner encouraged audience members to reveal the most significant take-away from their undergraduate nursing education. The greatest benefit was quickly clear to me — problem-solving thinking. Memory produced a mind video: a short, dark-haired, nursing instructor lecturing a small group of first year students in an empty…
Read MoreStudy: Brain changes seen in cabbies who take ‘The Knowledge’
The structure of a London taxi driver’s brain changes during the gruelling process of learning the quickest way around the capital, scans reveal.
Read MoreStudy: Dyslexia not related to intelligence. Implications for discrepancy model?
NIH-funded study finds dyslexia not tied to IQ (NIH press release): — “Regardless of high or low overall scores on an IQ test, children with dyslexia show similar patterns of brain activity, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health. The results call into question the discrepancy model — the practice of classifying…
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