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Tero Toivanen

Neurophilosophy : The neurological basis of intuition - 0 views

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explicit memory implicit memory intuition

shared by Tero Toivanen on 23 May 09 - Cached
  • Tero Toivanen on 23 May 09
     
    According to a new study, our gut feelings can enhance the retrieval of explicitly encoded memories. Eksplisiittisen ja implisiittisen muistitiedon käsittely aivoissa.
David McGavock

What is intelligence ? | BrainFacts.org Blog - 0 views

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shared by David McGavock on 31 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • What do we mean when we say someone is intelligent and is there any scientific basis for defining intelligence? These questions have been at the center of a more than century-old debate in psychology.
  • Although it may be practical for people to think of intelligence as something that exists, whether science should consider intelligence and how it would define it remains very controversial.
  • A recent study published by Hampshire et al.1 from the University of Western Ontario has looked into the brain areas that are activated by tasks that are typically used to test for intelligence. In doing so they hoped to determine if brain areas related to cognitive demands are activated altogether as demands increase during intelligence tests of various kinds, or if some areas were activated during tests for a specific intelligence domain and not for others.
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  • The study is interesting because it provides three candidate intelligence factors (instead of 1) that have been built not from intuition about what tasks do but based on the set of brain areas that might contribute to those tasks. However don’t get too excited, the methods used have severe limitations and we are still only at the hypothesis level. We do not know how these areas contribute to performance in intelligence tests and we do not know why they are activated and how they interact together to create the behavior.
  • David McGavock on 31 Dec 12
     
    A recent study published by Hampshire et al.1 from the University of Western Ontario has looked into the brain areas that are activated by tasks that are typically used to test for intelligence. In doing so they hoped to determine if brain areas related to cognitive demands are activated altogether as demands increase during intelligence tests of various kinds, or if some areas were activated during tests for a specific intelligence domain and not for others.
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