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Research Hit: New Insights into the Intelligent Brain
New research shows three types of intelligence and that connectivity is king
Aren’t you currently writing on the high-performing brain?
Yes, in my Handbook of the Brain in Business I break down the concept of the high-performing brain — and high performance is not just to do with intelligence. Even so this research, just out, is fascinating as it gives us the most detailed insight into the intelligent brain yet.
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Jonas Thiele et al., of the University of Würzburg in Germany, analysed data of over 800 individuals whose data had been collected as part of the Human Connectome Project. But they wanted to move away from making intelligence predictions that in the end prove less accurate than taking an intelligence test. There have ben multiple attempts to predict intelligence from scanning data with reasonable accuracy.
How did they do that?
