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This may be highly counter-intuitive because we culturally associate this sense of justice with idealism or, as Che Guevara put it, with be...

Children that at early ages have similar or even greater gray matter than their wealthier peers, get stuck in a weaker development as they ...

An average of 13 IQ points. It's not being poor what causes it but the stress of scarcity of resources, which simply copes the brain. ...

Again nurture (environment) seems to be much more important than nature (genetics) in what regards to human intelligence. A new study...

Nature vs nurture? Where genetics often fail to explain most differences in cognitive development in a satisfactory manner, environmental ...

Correction: a reader indicates that ~2% is the amount of influence from the addition of many SNPs (often with a tiny estimated impact each...

Or in other words: to focus on what is most important. An experiment performed at the University of Rochester confirmed previous findin...

Recent experiments with mice have shown that those with transplanted human glial cells known as astrocytes perform much better in learning...

An image says more than a thousand words. And in this case the image is a brain scan... or rather two side by side: Both brains belong ...

A new study on monozygotic ( identical ) twins with clear IQ differences finds that epigenetic methylation of certain genes may be the caus...

Frontal lobe ( CC-BY-SA-2.1-jp ) This paper looks like a very important research piece for the understanding of the human mind, of what...

The copy number of a protein-making gene, DUF1220, which has been related in humans with microcephaly, may underly the extra size of our b...

Havard University has issued a press release where Christopher F. Chabris, author of a yet unpublished paper on the matter, ponders the el...