The Surprising Similarities Between Twister and Intelligence

The flexibility of brain connections can indicate how quickly we can learn or multitask.

The Surprising Similarities Between Twister and Intelligence BrainCraft

Premiered March 13, 2018
The Surprising Similarities Between Twister and Intelligence

Network Neuroscience offers a new way to look at our brains – where researchers organize our brain's connections as patterns and look at how those connections interact, change and stay the same when we perform different tasks. It turns out that the flexibility of those connections can indicate how quickly we can learn or multitask – and is a top predictor of intelligence.

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BrainCraft

Vanessa Hill talks about psychology, neuroscience, and why we act the way we do. Neuroscience has never been so animated.

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