How does our brain generate that sort of flexible and goal-directed behaviour that we call intelligence? Are individual differences in intelligence due to a variety of cognitive abilities or do they depend on one single mental ability? In this commentary, I revise and critically assess the key elements of John Duncan's theory of general intelligence presented in the popular-science book "How intelligence happens", recently translated into Italian and edited by F. Pavani, with a new final chapter. Starting from Charles Spearman's research on a general intelligence factor and psychometric tests, Duncan advances a theory that characterises intelligence in terms of integration and cognitive control. Neuropsychological and neuroimaging data sugg...
M.A.Human intelligence has been investigated from many different angles with various resulting defin...
Cognitive Psychology (CP) in the last 50 years has shown impressive development, producing a large b...
The model of human intelligence that is most widely adopted derives from psychometrics and behaviora...
How does our brain generate that sort of flexible and goal-directed behaviour that we call intellige...
Riassunto: In che modo il nostro cervello è in grado di produrre quel tipo di comportamento flessibi...
The notion of intelligence is relevant to several fields of research, including cognitive and compar...
How do we come to know what we know? Why do some people seem to know more than others? What processe...
SummaryWhat makes one person more intellectually able than another? Can the entire distribution of h...
What can artificial intelligence learn from the cognitive sciences? We review some fundamental aspec...
What makes one person more intellectually able than another? Can the entire distribution of human in...
Despite substantial evidence for the link between an individual’s intelligence and successful life o...
The research of human intelligence includes a broad range of theories and a variety of different ans...
Plato argued that intelligence was what distinguished the different social classes, a fixed and inna...
Through the years several theories have emerged trying to explain what intelligence is, and tried to...
PERCY (1964, 1969) has suggested that the theories proposed by psychologists on the nature of intell...
M.A.Human intelligence has been investigated from many different angles with various resulting defin...
Cognitive Psychology (CP) in the last 50 years has shown impressive development, producing a large b...
The model of human intelligence that is most widely adopted derives from psychometrics and behaviora...
How does our brain generate that sort of flexible and goal-directed behaviour that we call intellige...
Riassunto: In che modo il nostro cervello è in grado di produrre quel tipo di comportamento flessibi...
The notion of intelligence is relevant to several fields of research, including cognitive and compar...
How do we come to know what we know? Why do some people seem to know more than others? What processe...
SummaryWhat makes one person more intellectually able than another? Can the entire distribution of h...
What can artificial intelligence learn from the cognitive sciences? We review some fundamental aspec...
What makes one person more intellectually able than another? Can the entire distribution of human in...
Despite substantial evidence for the link between an individual’s intelligence and successful life o...
The research of human intelligence includes a broad range of theories and a variety of different ans...
Plato argued that intelligence was what distinguished the different social classes, a fixed and inna...
Through the years several theories have emerged trying to explain what intelligence is, and tried to...
PERCY (1964, 1969) has suggested that the theories proposed by psychologists on the nature of intell...
M.A.Human intelligence has been investigated from many different angles with various resulting defin...
Cognitive Psychology (CP) in the last 50 years has shown impressive development, producing a large b...
The model of human intelligence that is most widely adopted derives from psychometrics and behaviora...