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For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

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For decades, researchers have attempted to pinpoint the specific areas of the brain responsible for human intelligence. A new analysis suggests that general intelligence involves the coordination of ...

Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...

Every morning at 74th Street Elementary School in South Los Angeles, a small figure walks briskly through the front gate. Her name is Linda Ricks; she’s a retired office manager and lifelong community ...

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"The neuroscience community doesn't have a single definition of intelligence," says David Eagleman, professor of neuroscience at Stanford University. This fundamental uncertainty about the very thing ...

Intelligence, therefore, depends on how the brain manages the division of labor across different networks and combines them as needed. Second, for the brain to manage this distributed processing, it ...