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Preterm Babies More Likely to Develop Memory Issues

Babies who have a low weight at birth, or who are delivered before term, are known to achieve lower cognitive test scores than their peers, but now scientists show exactly how birth issues affect executive functioning. The work focused primarily on attention and memory. According to the research team, preterm babies...

12 December 2011
04:46 GMT

IQ Level Has No Influence of Dyslexia

Dyslexia, a developmental reading disorder, is a disability that occurs when the human brain is not capable of recognizing and processing certain symbols properly. A new study demonstrates that this disorder has nothing to do with IQ levels, as previous researches had indicated. Naturally, dyslexia affects childre...

23 September 2011
15:31 GMT

Opera Users Are the Smartest, IE6 Users the Dumbest, Study Finds

We now have scientific proof, as scientific as web-based studies go, of what plenty of smug Firefox and Chrome users have been saying for years, Internet Explorer users aren't as smart as those that use alternative browsers. What's more, the older the browser version, the dumber users tend to be. AptiQuan...

1 August 2011
10:20 GMT

Hormone May Be Source of Increased Intelligence

For centuries, philosophers have been debating whether a person's intelligence is mostly dictated by nature or nurture. Now that scientists have entered the discussions, things are getting interesting. An expert now argues that a particular hormone may underlie some people's amazing intelligence. Canadian r...

14 March 2011
09:19 GMT

IQ Level Linked to Childhood Diets

According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that the type of foods parents give to their children is a clear indicator on the IQ level the young ones will develop when they grow up.The researchers behind the new study looked at how dietary patterns begin to influence the IQ of children aged 8. They n...

8 February 2011
08:23 GMT

Designing an IQ Test for Aliens Is Tough

Given all this talk about the potential discovery of intelligent aliens among the large number of exoplanets awaiting discovery, experts figured out that they have no scientific method towards determining the IQ level of an extraterrestrial. A research team is now at work to fix this issue. The investigators, bas...

29 January 2011
05:37 GMT

IQ Related to Memory Quantity, Not Quality

A group of investigators in the United States has demonstrated that the sheer amount of how much a person can remember is a clear indicator of how high they will score in IQ tested. The amount of details test participants remembered of each individual memory could not be established as a factor for determining the ra...

30 November 2010
09:48 GMT

Good News for Breastfeeding Epileptic Mothers

A new study carried out by the Emory University School of Medicine concluded that epilepsy drugs may not affect the IQ of babies being breastfed.This is quite reassuring for nursing mothers, who believed that breastfeeding while taking seizure medication could affect the child's IQ later in life.The research inc...

25 November 2010
05:11 GMT

Manganese in Drinking Water Affects Children's Intellectual Abilities

A recent study carried out by researchers at the University of Quebec in Montreal, the University of Montreal and the Polytechnic School of Montreal, shows that children that are exposed to high concentrations of manganese in drinking water had results on IQ tests worse than children with lower exposures.The team of ...

20 September 2010
08:49 GMT

Modern Warfare and Battlefield Do Not Enhance Accuracy

A new study put together by the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and the Leiden University, both from The Netherlands, shows that playing first person shooters actually helps players prepare for the problems they might face in their every day life.The research paper is wonderfully named “...

29 April 2010
14:11 GMT

Humans Inherit Face-Recognition Abilities

Many researchers have said over the years that a person's intelligence quotient (IQ) can be considered a clear indicator of that individual's smartness in a number of other areas as well. But a new study seems to suggest that this is not always the case, especially when it comes to our ability to recognize ...

22 January 2010
06:45 GMT

Spanking Children Lowers Their IQ

According to leading experts, it may be that the century-old habit of spanking children may do them more harm than good. It may, indeed, make them move more hastily, or even teach them not to do something (for a while, at least), but it could also lower their intelligence coefficient (IQ), scientists report. The rece...

25 September 2009
15:31 GMT

People with Higher IQs Make Sounder Economic Decisions

Experts from the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities and Morris campuses have proven in a recent study that people with a higher measure of cognitive abilities than the average are more likely to take better economic decisions, at least in some cases. The new research, which focused on about 1,000 trainee truc...

28 April 2009
03:28 GMT

Children of Older Men May Have a Lower IQ

Australian researchers from the University of Queensland have just recently released a new study, which seems to point out the fact that children whose fathers are older tend to score less in IQ tests than their peers, who were parented at an earlier age. The findings have been immediately contradicted by numerous p...

12 March 2009
09:00 GMT

Musicians Have Higher IQ than Non-Musicians

A recent study indicates that musical training determines musicians to yield higher IQ scores than their non-musician counterparts. This is due to the fact that they tend to use both of their brain sides more frequently than regular people.Crystal Gibson, Bradley Folley and Sohee Park, psychologists from the Vanderbi...

3 October 2008
06:25 GMT

Intelligent People Are Prone to Alcoholism

The higher your IQ coefficient is, the more drinks you take daily. These are the results of a research made by the Medical Research Council and published in the "American Journal of Public Health," which points that women are particularly prone to drink heavily in their thirties, if they have an over-the-average int...

13 February 2008
04:21 GMT

IQ Score Linked to the Quality of the Short-Term Memory

Leeloo, the Fifth Element, could learn by heart books in a matter of seconds, but you should calm down, as real people cannot remember a thousand different things at once. This is just impossible, as a new research shows that the average person's short-term memory can only stick four items at a time.The team of ...

13 July 2007
06:07 GMT

Being a Genius Is Due to Hard Work, Not High IQ

Do they call you dumb, a**hole, sucker, idiot and so on?It does not matter, one day you could be (might become) a genius. A roundup of IQ studies from Cambridge University Press, shows that being a genius means 99 % hard work. "There are international chess masters that have below-average IQs," said author Dr. K. And...

17 April 2007
05:34 GMT


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