ISIR Conf. - Nettlebeck interview

Ted Nettlebeck ( on right ) being interviewed by David Lubinski at
ISIR in Decatur GA.

Top 10 neuroscience articles from New Scientist

Thanks to MIMD HACKS for tip regarding free online access to these
articles

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/20
08/12/new_scientist_neuros.html

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iBlog feature: IMPROBABLE RESEARCH

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On the road again: 2008 ISIR in GA

I'm on the road again for work-related business. I will be attending and presenting at the 2008 ISIR conference in GA. I don't expect much time to blog...except for possible "push" type FYI posts re: content posted at other blogs. However, two years ago at ISIR there was a wifi connection in the presentation room and I attempted some "live blogging from ISIR." I MIGHT try that again....no promises.

I shall return. The conference program looks awesome.

Collective IQ revisited @ WIRED

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/silicon-valley.html

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Should we all use drugs to enhance intelligence

Interesting debate emerging re: cognitive enhancement via drugs

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/12/mainstreaming_cognit.html

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IQs Corner Book Nook: The Numerati

I just finished reading a very interesting book....The Numerati (link to Amazon). It is a very quick and easy read and is very thought-provoking re: the number crunching science that has been developing behind all the free data we give away re: ourselves with our many mouse clicks while

traversing the internet, credit card purchases, etc. Data mining is the result......with the potential to benefit businesses, your health care, etc. Also, as the author notes...there is a potential dark side in terms of violations of our privacy. I give it 4 out of 5 stars. I would read it again. A NY Times books review is also available (click here).

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IQ Scholar Spotlight: Ian Deary

Another IQs Corner IQ Scholar Spotlight - Dr. Ian Deary

Dr. Ian Deary (listed under IQs Corner IQ Scholar section) is prolific scholar in the study of human intelligence, probably most well known for his constant stream of publications from the Scottish Mental Survey follow-up studies (The Edinburgh-based follow-up studies of the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947.). His findings have highlighted very interesting, and sometimes surprising, links between early intelligence and later adult behavior and outcomes. More information can be found at Wikipedia.

I ran a search of his name in the IAP Reference Database and found over 80+ references (click here to view)

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IQs Corner Recent Literature of Interest 12-8-08

This weeks "recent literature" of interest is now available. Click here to access.

CHC intelligence gender differences manuscript

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A CHC gender difference manuscript by Keith et al. (2008), published in Intelligence, was previously featured at this blog as "in press." The publication is now formal. Kudos to Tim Keith et al. Click here to see prior comments and post re: this research

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IQ Classics: Top 10 IQ citations @ 11-30-08

Top 10 Cited articles in Intelligence as of 11-30-08.

As per usual, anyone interested in reading the pdf file for an article, in exchange for a guest blog post review/comment post to IQs Corner, should contact me at iapsych@charter.net

Extracted from Scopus (on Sun Nov 30 11:10:30 GMT 2008)

240		Emotional intelligence meets traditional standards for an intelligence
		Volume 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pp 267-298 Mayer, J.D. | Caruso, D.R. | Salovey, P.
186		Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life
		Volume 24 1 SPEC.ISS, 1997, Pp 79-132 Gottfredson, L.S.
153		The intelligence of emotional intelligence
		Volume 17, Issue 4, 1993, Pp 433-442 Mayer, J.D. | Salovey, P.
144		A unifying model for the structure of intellectual abilities
		Volume 8, Issue 3, 1984, Pp 179-203 Gustafsson, J.-E.
131		Cortical glucose metabolic rate correlates of abstract reasoning and attention studied with positron emission tomography
		Volume 12, Issue 2, 1988, Pp 199-217 Haier, R.J. | Siegel Jr., B.V. | Nuechterlein, K.H. | Hazlett, E. | Wu, J.C. | Paek, J. | Browning, H.L. | Buchsbaum, M.S.
118		A latent variable analysis of working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, processing speed, and general fluid intelligence
		Volume 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pp 163-183 Conway, A.R.A. | Cowan, N. | Bunting, M.F. | Therriault, D.J. | Minkoff, S.R.B.
111		A theory of adult intellectual development: Process, personality, interests, and knowledge
		Volume 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pp 227-257 Ackerman, P.L.
104		What is a good g?
		Volume 18, Issue 3, 1994, Pp 231-258 Jensen, A.R. | Weng, L.-J.
98		The stability of individual differences in mental ability from childhood to old age: Follow-up of the 1932 Scottish mental survey
		Volume 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pp 49-55 Deary, I.J. | Whalley, L.J. | Lemmon, H. | Crawford, J.R | Starr, J.M.
92		Intelligence and changes in regional cerebral glucose metabolic rate following learning
		Volume 16, Issue 3-4, 1992, Pp 415-426 Haier, R.J. | Siegel, B. | Tang, C. | Abel, L. | Buchsbaum, M.S.

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Hot IQ topics: Top 10 Intelligence downloads July-Sept 2008

Top 10 downloaded articles in Intelligence from July--Sept 2008.

As per usual, anyone interested in reading the pdf file for an article, in exchange for a guest blog post review/comment post to IQs Corner, should contact me at iapsych@charter.net

Most Downloaded

Extract from ScienceDirect

1. Second-to-fourth digit length, testosterone and spatial ability
   Intelligence, Volume 33, Issue 3, May 2005, Pages 215-230
2. Item Sequencing Effects on the Measurement of Fluid Intelligence
   Intelligence, Volume 28, Issue 2, May 2000, Pages 145-160
3. Emotional intelligence meets traditional standards for an intelligence
   Intelligence, Volume 27, Issue 4, December 1999, Pages 267-298
4. Beyond g: Putting multiple intelligences theory to the test
   Intelligence, Volume 34, Issue 5, September 2006, Pages 487-502
5. Working memory components and intelligence in children
   Intelligence, Volume 36, Issue 5, September 2008, Pages 394-402
6. Sex differences in mental arithmetic, digit span, and g defined as working memory capacity
   Intelligence, Volume 36, Issue 3, May 2008, Pages 226-235
7. A theory of adult intellectual development: Process, personality, interests, and knowledge
   Intelligence, Volume 22, Issue 2, March 1996, Pages 227-257
8. Intelligence and socioeconomic success: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal research
   Intelligence
9. Gender differences in mathematics: Does the story need to be rewritten?
   Intelligence, Volume 36, Issue 5, September 2008, Pages 403-421
10. Spatial rotation and recognizing emotions: Gender related differences in brain activity
    Intelligence, Volume 36, Issue 5, September 2008, Pages 383-393

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IQ Scholar Spotlight: David Geary

Another IQs Corner IQ Scholar Spotlight - Dr. David Geary

Dr. David Geary (listed under IQs Corner IQ Scholar section) is a tremendous researcher and thinker. I try to read every think he writes. I've been particularly interested in his excellent research on the cognitive skills related to the development of mathematical abilities---he is, IMHO, one of the top researchers in this area. His writings on evolutionary psychology, which recenty have focused on educational implications, are very thought provoking. I particularly enjoyed his recent article on "evolutionary aspects of math disabilities." A definite must scholar to keep tabs on. Click here for prior IQs Corner posts that have mentioned Geary.

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IQ Scholar Spotlight: Stephen Bowden

I'm going to attempt to start another semi-irregular FYI topic post to IQs Corner....IQ Scholar Spotlight.  As you will notice on the left side of the blog, there is an area that includes links to prominent scholars in human intelligence (IQ Scholars).  You can click on names and go to their professional web pages and learn more about their research.  I must admit that I've been remiss in keeping this current...a situation I now hope to rectify.

Today I'm adding Dr. Stephen Bowden, University of Melbourne, who I met while in Australia presenting on the new Australian Adaptation of the WJ III.  Dr. Bowden will be independently analyzing the factor structure of the WJ III AUS norm data. 

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WMF Human Cognitive Abilities Overview and Update - 2008 ISIR presentation

At the forthcoming 2008 International Society for Intelligence Researchers (ISIR) conference (next week- Dec 11-14), I'm presenting an overview and update of the Woodcock-Munoz-Foundation (WMF) Human Cognitive Abilities project.

For those who cannot attend, I've uploaded a copy of my PPT slides to Slideshare. Click here to view. I would recommend selecting the "full view" icon to better see the detail in the slides.

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IQ pipeline # 2: Intelligence "in press" articles

Below is the current list of "in press" manuscripts for Intelligence. Some very interesting reading coming. If any reader see's a manuscript they are dying to read, and would be interested in securing a pdf copy now, in exchange for writing a guest blog post here at IQ's Corner....contact me via my email - iap@earthlink.net

Corrigendum to “Childhood intelligence predicts voter turnout, voting preferences, and political involvement in adulthood: the 1970 British Cohort Study” [Intelligence 36 (2008)
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 December 2008
Ian J. Deary, G. David Batty, Catharine R. Gale

Inbreeding depression and IQ in a study of 72 countries
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 December 2008
Michael A. Woodley

A genetic analysis of brain volumes and IQ in children
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 3 December 2008
Marieke van Leeuwen, Jiska S. Peper, Stéphanie M. van den Berg, Rachel M. Brouwer, Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol, René S. Kahn, Dorret I. Boomsma

Murray , Real education: Four simple truths for bringing America's schools back to reality, Crown Forum, New York (2008) ISBN 978-0-307-40538-8 219 pages.
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 November 2008
Jonathan Wai

Intelligence and neural efficiency: Measures of brain activation versus measures of functional connectivity in the brain
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 November 2008
Aljoscha C. Neubauer, Andreas Fink

Intelligence and semen quality are positively correlated
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 November 2008
Rosalind Arden, Linda S. Gottfredson, Geoffrey Miller, Arand Pierce
Fluid intelligence is independently associated with all-cause mortality over 17 years in an elderly community sample: An investigation of potential mechanisms
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 November 2008
Philip J. Batterham, Helen Christensen, Andrew J. Mackinnon

Positive association between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in a representative US sample of healthy 6 to 18 year-olds
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 November 2008
S. Karama, Y. Ad-Dab'bagh, R.J. Haier, I.J. Deary, O.C. Lyttelton, C. Lepage, A.C. Evans and the Brain Development Cooperative Group
Exploring possible neural mechanisms of intelligence differences using processing speed and working memory tasks: An fMRI study
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 November 2008
Gordon D. Waiter, Ian J. Deary, Roger T. Staff, Alison D. Murray, Helen C. Fox, John M. Starr, Lawrence J. Whalley

Cognition and survival in a biracial urban population of old people
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 November 2008
Robert S. Wilson, Lisa L. Barnes, Carlos F. Mendes de Leon, Denis A. Evans

Fluid intelligence but not vocabulary has increased in Britain, 1979–2008
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 November 2008
Richard Lynn

The Wonderlic Personnel Test and elementary cognitive tasks as predictors of religious sectarianism, scriptural acceptance and religious questioning
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 November 2008
Sharon Bertsch, Bryan J. Pesta

Level of cognitive performance as a correlate and predictor of health behaviors that protect against cognitive decline in late life: The path through life study
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 November 2008
Kaarin J. Anstey, Lee-Fay Low, Helen Christensen, Perminder Sachdev

John and Jean Raven, Editors, Uses and Abuses of Intelligence: Studies advancing Spearman and Raven's Quest for Non-Arbitrary Metrics, Royal Fireworks Press, New York (2008), p. 593 ISBN 978-0-89624-356-7.
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 November 2008
Earl Hunt

IQ in childhood and the metabolic syndrome in middle age: Extended follow-up of the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 October 2008
Marcus Richards, Stephanie Black, Gita Mishra, Catharine R. Gale, Ian J. Deary, David G. Batty

Structure and continuity of intellectual development in early childhood
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 9 October 2008
Otilia M. Blaga, D. Jill Shaddy, Christa J. Anderson, Kathleen N. Kannass, Todd D. Little, John Colombo

Intelligence in childhood and risk of psychological distress in adulthood: The 1958 National Child Development Survey and the 1970 British Cohort Study
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 October 2008
Catharine R. Gale, Stephani L. Hatch, G. David Batty, Ian J. Deary

Emotional intelligence: The MSCEIT from the perspective of generalizability theory
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 7 October 2008
Hallvard Føllesdal, Knut A. Hagtvet

CHC theory and the human cognitive abilities project: Standing on the shoulders of the giants of psychometric intelligence research
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 26 September 2008
Kevin S. McGrew
What has caused the Flynn effect? Secular increases in the Development Quotients of infants
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 September 2008
Richard Lynn
Gray matter correlates of fluid, crystallized, and spatial intelligence: Testing the P-FIT model
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 September 2008
Roberto Colom, Richard J. Haier, Kevin Head, Juan Álvarez-Linera, María Ángeles Quiroga, Pei Chun Shih, Rex E. Jung

The global bell curve: Race, IQ, and inequality worldwide
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 September 2008
Wendy Johnson
The intelligence–religiosity nexus: A representative study of white adolescent Americans
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 September 2008
Helmuth Nyborg

Reversing the speed–IQ correlation: Intra-individual variability and attentional control in the inspection time paradigm
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2008
Mark C. Fox, Roy W. Roring, Ainsley L. Mitchum

Are apparent sex differences in mean IQ scores created in part by sample restriction and increased male variance?
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 September 2008
Dominika Dykiert, Catharine R. Gale, Ian J. Deary

Correlations between intelligence and components of serial timing variability
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 September 2008
Guy Madison, Lea Forsman, Örjan Blom, Anke Karabanov, Fredrik Ullén
“Intelligence and Civilisation”: A Ludwig Mond lecture delivered at the University of Manchester on 23rd October 1936 by Godfrey H. Thomson. A reprinting with background and commentary
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 September 2008
Ian J. Deary, Martin Lawn, Caroline E. Brett, David J. Bartholomew
Culture-fair prediction of academic achievement
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 30 August 2008
Joseph F. Fagan, Cynthia R. Holland

Neuroanatomical correlates of intelligence
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 30 August 2008
Eileen Luders, Katherine L. Narr, Paul M. Thompson, Arthur W. Toga

John Carson, Editor, The measurement of merit: Talents, intelligence and equality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940, Princeton University Press (2007) xvii + 401 pages, ISBN-10: 0-691-01715-0.
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 August 2008
David J. Bartholomew
Developmental sex differences in the relation of neuroanatomical connectivity to intelligence
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 13 August 2008
Vincent J. Schmithorst
Occult white matter damage contributes to intellectual disability in tuberous sclerosis complex
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 July 2008
Chunshui Yu, Fuchun Lin, Li Zhao, Jing Ye, Wen Qin

Modeling the impact of test anxiety and test familiarity on the criterion-related validity of cognitive ability tests
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 7 July 2008
Charlie L. Reeve, Eric D. Heggestad, Filip Lievens

Comparability of IQ scores over time
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 20 June 2008
Olev Must, Jan te Nijenhuis, Aasa Must, Annelies E.M. van Vianen

Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 April 2008
Richard Lynn, John Harvey, Helmuth Nyborg


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19th Annual Nelson Butters' Neuropsychology Conference - ADHD focus

Registration is open for the 19th Annual Nelson Butters' West Coast Neuropsychology Conference: Advances in the Neuropsychological Assessment and Treatment of School-Age Children with Cognitive Deficits. Location is San Diego, CA.

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APA feature on psychology blogging

Kudos to fellow psychology bloggers who were recognized in a special article in the latest issue of the American Psychological Association (APA) Monitor on Psychology.  Two of the three featured blogs are two that I monitor (via RSS feeds) on a regular basis---Developing Intelligence and Cognitive Dailey.  Keep up the good work.

Salt and IQ

Interesting research featured over at the FRONTAL CORTEX.

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/12/salt_and_lead.php

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The Magnificent (CHC) 7

This image was sent to me by Dr. Alex Beaujean, who in turn said he received from a couple of his graduate students (Mark Pantle and Lindsey Witte). Thanks.