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Dies; doctors discover his brain is 5 pounds (normal brain is around 3 pounds)
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Dies; brain found to have exceptionally numerous and deep concolutions
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Created an intelligence test to identify French schoolchildren needing special attention
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Extended Binet's test to include teenagers and "superior adults"
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Created the IQ test
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Discovered children with IQ's above 135 were healthy, well-adjusted, and unusually successful academically -they weren't mutated freaks but normal people.
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Published his book: Intelligence and Experience
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Inspired by Hunt's book; U.S. government-funded preschool program
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Discoverd children who had minimal interaction suffered delayed development
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Speculated that "faster cognitive processing may allow more information to be acquired"
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Found verbal intelligence scores are predictable from the speed with which people retrieve information from memory
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Suspects fast reactions on simple tasks reflect one's core information proccessing ability
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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
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Suggests frontal lobe area just above the edge of the eyebrows may be a "global workspace for organizing and coordinationg information"
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"Intelligence is due to the development of neural connections in response to the environment"
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argues that general intelligence evolved as a form of intelligence that helps people solve novel problems
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Argues that biological and social influences appear to affect gender differences in life priorities, risk-taking, and in math reasoning and spatial abilities