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Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts

Training can increase fluid intelligence, once thought to be fixed at birth

Training a person’s working memory may increase his or her general intelligence.
Can human beings rev up their intelligence quotients, or are they stuck with IQs set by their genes at birth? Until recently, nature seemed to be the clear winner over nurture.
But new research, [...]

Why our brains are so clumsy

Free thinking, indeed any kind of thinking, is dependent on the abilities of our brains.  Learning more about our brain can give us insight into the process and products of thinking.
In his new book, Kluge: The haphazard construction of the human mind, Gary Marcus aims to take the human species down a peg or two. [...]