Neuroscience
Watch his TED talk here.
- Link Feast
Tuck into 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine, with a special focus on traffic and transport psychology, has been made entirely open access - get PDFs of all the articles, or read it via...
- Flynn Effect For Memory Could Invalidate Neuropsychologists' Tests
In Western countries, scores on IQ tests have been rising for several decades - the Flynn effect, named after the political scientist James Flynn. Now Sallie Baxendale at the Institute of Neurology has provided evidence that a similar effect has occurred...
- Has Average Intelligence Started To Decline?
After years on the increase, average intelligence test performance could be in decline. That's according to Thomas Teasdale and David Owen who took advantage of the Danish tradition of testing the intelligence of all 18-year-old men being considered...
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For when you've had enough of journal articles: "He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain" - Elizabeth Day of The Observer newspaper meets Howard Dully, who was subjected to frontal lobotomy at the age of 12. "You must remember this" - Penelope...
- Today's Ted Talk: Dr. James Flynn Of "the Flynn Effect"
Watch his TED talk here. ...
Neuroscience
Today's TED Talk: Dr. James Flynn of "The Flynn Effect"
Watch his TED talk here.
- Link Feast
Tuck into 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine, with a special focus on traffic and transport psychology, has been made entirely open access - get PDFs of all the articles, or read it via...
- Flynn Effect For Memory Could Invalidate Neuropsychologists' Tests
In Western countries, scores on IQ tests have been rising for several decades - the Flynn effect, named after the political scientist James Flynn. Now Sallie Baxendale at the Institute of Neurology has provided evidence that a similar effect has occurred...
- Has Average Intelligence Started To Decline?
After years on the increase, average intelligence test performance could be in decline. That's according to Thomas Teasdale and David Owen who took advantage of the Danish tradition of testing the intelligence of all 18-year-old men being considered...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: "He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain" - Elizabeth Day of The Observer newspaper meets Howard Dully, who was subjected to frontal lobotomy at the age of 12. "You must remember this" - Penelope...
- Today's Ted Talk: Dr. James Flynn Of "the Flynn Effect"
Watch his TED talk here. ...