What’s a genius IQ?
What’s a genius IQ? Where does it come from? Intriguing questions, which neuroscience may be starting to answer.
In a New York Times article a few years ago, Harvard Psychology Professor Steven Pinker wrote about neuroscientists who, after examining the brain of Albert Einstein, said it “had large and unusually shaped inferior parietal lobules, a seat of mathematical and spatial reasoning.”
Pinker adds, “The effort to reduce brilliance to bulges in the brain may smack of 19th-century pseudoscience… But the elegant study on Einstein, published in the medical journal The Lancet.. is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience.
“Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, most nonverbal. Contrary to widespread belief, we do not think exclusively in language.”
Continued in article His Brain Measured Up.
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August 27th, 2008 at 5:35 am
“What’s a genius IQ?” Wrong question. When will people stop trying to link genius to IQ? Marilyn vos Savant — IQ over 200. A genius? Far from it. Richard Feynman — IQ 125. Acknowledged not just as a genius but as a “wizard” by colleagues.