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Lord Byron
Dies; doctors discover his brain is 5 pounds (normal brain is around 3 pounds) -
Beethoven
Dies; brain found to have exceptionally numerous and deep concolutions -
Alfred Binet
Created an intelligence test to identify French schoolchildren needing special attention -
Lewis Terman
Extended Binet's test to include teenagers and "superior adults" -
William Stern
Created the IQ test -
Lewis Terman
Discovered children with IQ's above 135 were healthy, well-adjusted, and unusually successful academically -they weren't mutated freaks but normal people. -
J. McVicker Hunt
Published his book: Intelligence and Experience -
Project Head Start
Inspired by Hunt's book; U.S. government-funded preschool program -
J. McVicker Hunt
Discoverd children who had minimal interaction suffered delayed development -
Philip Vernon
Speculated that "faster cognitive processing may allow more information to be acquired" -
Earl Hunt
Found verbal intelligence scores are predictable from the speed with which people retrieve information from memory -
Nathan Brody
Suspects fast reactions on simple tasks reflect one's core information proccessing ability -
Sandra Witelson
Studied Eisntein's brain -wasn't notably larger than the average brain but was 15% larger in the parietal lobe's lower region used for processing math & spatial information -
John Duncan
Suggests frontal lobe area just above the edge of the eyebrows may be a "global workspace for organizing and coordinationg information" -
Dennis Garlick
"Intelligence is due to the development of neural connections in response to the environment" -
Satoshi Kanazawa
argues that general intelligence evolved as a form of intelligence that helps people solve novel problems -
Steven Pinker
Argues that biological and social influences appear to affect gender differences in life priorities, risk-taking, and in math reasoning and spatial abilities