Our thoughts and inner mental life is encoded not in the electrical firing of individual brain cells or neurons, but in patterns of electrical activity in networks (or circuits) of neurons. There are many different networks in the brain – each serving a different function – and many different possible patterns of activation within these networks. Life can be understood as a series of problems – better called ‘challenges’ – that need to be solved. …How to fix w, how to save for x, how to negotiate y, how to meet z. The more intelligent we are, the better we are able to tackle these problems efficiently and effectively....

   What Is An IQ Score? The online IQ tests we link to on purchasing any IQ Mindware™ software will give you a valid and accurate measure of your IQ level. You can use this table below answer your questions: ’what is an IQ score?’ and ‘what is a high iq?’. An IQ score of 100 is the average IQ score in the general population. A score over 110 can be called a ‘high normal IQ’. An IQ of 115 or greater is regarded as a high IQ. It is our goal to help people attain this level of IQ. Mensa and International High IQ Society membership scores are also shown.     .   The IQ Bell...

Depression is depressingly common. Each year nearly 1 in 10 of us will be afflicted by it, and experience sadness or emptiness, lack of interest and motivation, sleep disturbance, feelings of worthlessness, and fatigue. Perhaps even thoughts of death. For a medical diagnosis of depression, click here. Why is depression so common? Could depression actually have a useful function since it is so common? Some researchers are beginning to ask this question, and they are focusing on the advantages of the typical thought process that is a signature of depression: rumination. Rumination Rumination is a style of thinking in which thinking becomes one track and persistent. The verb is...

Small-world cost-efficient brain networks have been naturally selected over the course of evolution. They are largely genetically based. They become less cost-efficient with age, and cost-efficiency predicts IQ.

A study this month reported in the journal Intelligence finds that fluid and verbal intelligence predicts sense of humour, which in turn predicts mating success! In this study, a large sample of 400 university students (200 men and 200 women) completed the Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices test (the same type of IQ test used before and after IQ Mindware™ software training). Participants in the study were also measured for “humor production” ability (the ability to write funny captions to cartoons), and what the researchers call “mating success” (measured in terms of lifetime number of partners and other measures of sexual activity). This study showed that fluid and verbal intelligence both predict...