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12 - Functional Brain Imaging of Intelligence

from Part III - Neuroimaging Methods and Findings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2021

By
Ulrike Basten  and
Christian J. Fiebach
Edited by
Aron K. Barbey ,
Sherif Karama  and
Richard J. Haier
Aron K. Barbey
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sherif Karama
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Richard J. Haier
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Functional brain imaging studies of intelligence have tackled the following questions: What happens in our brains when we solve tasks from an intelligence test? And are there differences between people? Do people with higher scores on an intelligence test show different patterns of brain activation while working on cognitive tasks than people with lower scores? Answering these questions can contribute to improving our understanding of the biological bases of intelligence. To investigate these questions, researchers have used different methods for quantifying patterns of brain activation changes and their association with cognitive processing – including electroencephalography (EEG), positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). The results of this research allow us to delineate those parts of the brain that are important for intelligence – either in the sense that they are activated when people solve tasks commonly used to test intelligence or in the sense that functional differences in these regions are associated with individual differences in intelligence. From the fact that some of our abilities – like our abilities to see, hear, feel, and move – can quite specifically be traced back to the contributions of distinct brain regions (namely the visual, auditory, somatosensory, and motor cortex) – one might derive the expectation that there must be another part of the brain responsible for higher cognitive functioning and intelligence. But, as the following review will show, there is no single “seat” of intelligence in our brain. Instead, intelligence is associated with a distributed set of brain regions.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience , pp. 235 - 260
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Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

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Save book to Dropbox

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Save book to Google Drive

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