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Will constant access to the Internet make today's young people brilliant multitaskers or shallow, screen-bound hermits? 
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Mothers who eat fish while pregnant produce offspring with better cognitive development.
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It might be difficult for anyone above the age of 25 to wrap their head around, but social intelligence in our younger generations may be in jeopardy as a result of our growing dependence on technology.
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The human body is much more mysterious than reductionist science would like us to believe. While Aristotle’s cardiocentric view lost the battle, it hasn’t necessarily lost the war. Despite the importance of the brain, the heart seems to be serving as an organ of intelligence in its own right.
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It's believed that listening to Mozart and other classical music recordings will make the listener smarter, but this is a misconception as there's nothing unique about Mozart's ability to increase your mental abilities.
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In our last post we posed a primate puzzler. How did the chimpanzee in Wolfgang Köhler’s experiment reach the banana hung from a hook in the ceiling? Solving this primate puzzler involves thinking with body feelings.
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Many parents believe playing Mozart will make their child smarter - but the science suggests teaching kids to play music themselves is more effective.
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Genetic study offers clues to how intelligence changes through life. Read about genetics, intelligence and cognitive science at NeuroscienceNews.com.
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Study tracks cognitive stability from childhood to old age and reveals extent of genetic influence.
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Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, a pioneer in the study of hemispheric (left vs. right brain) specialization describes "the Interpreter" - a left hemisphere function that organizes our memories into plausible stories. Less romantic, perhaps, than Gone With the Wind, the Interpreter may help to explain our species' profound relationship with storytelling.
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If humans were twice as intelligent, we would be more fulfilled on an individual scale, but society as a whole would be just as conflicted as it is now.
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“There’s kind of this common idea that too much knowledge can be a hindrance to creativity,” Huber says. It might be a child or an outsider who comes up with a brilliant new way to solve a problem, for example. Maybe it’s because experts know too much that they’ll stick with a familiar idea—like a familiar word—rather than coming up with something new. “To be creative, you need to use the knowledge related to the problem but not be biased to give the same answers that work for other problems.”
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Are we hurting our noggins? Internationally, are there social customs, diseases, pollutants, school policies, parental choices, drugs, diets and philosophies that cause, or are correlated with, decreased intelligence?
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The democratic process relies on the assumption that citizens (the majority of them, at least) can recognize the best political candidate, or best policy idea, when they see it.
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Earlier studies that linked specific genes to intelligence were largely wrong, Harvard researchers find For decades, scientists have understood that there is a genetic component to intelligence, but a new Harvard study has found both that most of the genes thought to be linked to intelligence are probably not in fact related to it, and identifying intelligence's specific genetic roots may still be a long way off.
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Ladies, do you ever feel less than intellectually adequate when you sit in a business meeting or attend a cocktail party? According to a new study, you might be right. Small groups reduce IQ performance, according to the researchers, especially in women.
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Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals?
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Our cognitive abilities and decision-making skills can be dramatically hindered in social settings where we feel that we are being ranked or assigned a status level...
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In the classic film '12 Angry Men,' Henry Fonda's character sways a jury with his quiet, persistent intelligence. But would he have succeeded if he had allowed himself to fall sway to the social dynamics of that jury?
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Scientists around the world have claimed that Mozart's music makes people more intelligent and improves health.
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October 7, 2013 9:06 PM
Ryal Newfeldt: Music is the perfect way to improve your mood, and clear your thoughts as you focus on sounds that stimulate your mind and soul. Therefore it is not surprising that Mozart's music has been scientifically proven to improve health in some instances
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In today's excerpt – thanks to the work of Daniel Kahneman and others, we now increasingly view our cognitive processes as being divided into two systems. System 1 produces the fast, intuitive reactions and instantaneous decisions that govern most of our lives. System 2 is the deliberate type of thinking involved in focus, deliberation, reasoning or analysis – such as calculating a complex math problem, exercising self-control, or performing a demanding physical task.
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One of corollaries on the rise of science has been a schism between the arts and sciences. The sciences are thought to be all about truth and objectivity: the arts about feelings and creativity. Neither stereotype holds up.
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It’s late in the evening: time to close the book and turn off the computer. You’re done for the day. What you may not realize, however, is that the learning process actually continues — in your dreams.
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