[Graeme]

How gifted brains work

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ighly intelligent people use slightly different brain circuitry to solve IQ test problems than their less gifted peers, some new studies have found.
This difference was especially pronounced in a zone called the posterior parietal cortex, at the top-back of the head, the researchers found, suggesting further study of this area might give insights into how intelligence works.
The posterior parietal cortex is considered important for “working memory”—the ability to hold items actively in mind, as when remembering a phone number for a few seconds, according to the researchers. Thus, high intelligence might partly be a fairly straightforward matter of more working memory capacity, they said.
There’s no evidence that one can enhance intelligence as a whole, he said, but one might be able to stimulate activity in certain brain areas to enhance learning. In a recent email, he said he is interested in a device called the transcranial magnetic stimulator, which through the use of magnetic fields “may be able to activate specific regions of our brain.”

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', '
')There’s no evidence that one can enhance intelligence as a whole, he said, but one might be able to stimulate activity in certain brain areas to enhance learning. In a recent email, he said he is interested in a device called the transcranial magnetic stimulator, which through the use of magnetic fields “may be able to activate specific regions of our brain.”

[Graeme]

Brain computer interface may help learning

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')tephen Berry and colleagues from the Miami (Ohio) University Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience showed when older rabbits were trained in classical eyeblink conditioning -- a common task used by neuroscientists studying memory -- age-related learning impairments were eliminated.

[k_semler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', '
')There’s no evidence that one can enhance intelligence as a whole, he said, but one might be able to stimulate activity in certain brain areas to enhance learning. In a recent email, he said he is interested in a device called the transcranial magnetic stimulator, which through the use of magnetic fields “may be able to activate specific regions of our brain.”

[I_Like_Plants]

Probably not very hard to build, unless it needs high magnetic fields, in which case it's a little harder to build.

[ubercrap]

So that's how my brain works...