Neuroscientists Map Intelligence In The Brain
Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have conducted the most comprehensive brain mapping to date of the cognitive abilities measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), the most widely used intelligence test in the world. The results offer new insight into how the various factors that comprise an "intelligence quotient" (IQ) score depend on particular regions of the brain.
Clean and Virtuous: When Physical Purity Becomes Moral Purity
How embodied metaphors, rooted in our physical understanding of abstract concepts, shape our view of the world. (Scientific American)
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