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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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29 January 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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