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behavioral differences between individual people—our distinctive intellectual abilities and personality traits—might also be inherited.

Samuel Barondes • Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences

Welcome to Your Brain

Sam Wang

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For most of human history, a genius was born, lived, and died, and no one knew a thing about him or her; today’s technology changes that

Jim O'Shaughnessy • O’Shaughnessy Ventures is Here (EP.140)

The SuperAging Research team identified a potential “brain signature” for super agers: They found that the anterior cingulate cortex, which impacts thinking, memory and decision-making, is thicker in super agers — sometimes thicker even than it is in most people in their 50s and 60s. In fact, in some super agers, the brain regions linked to memory

Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers

This ability to recognize diversity and organize it into categories is a biological reality that is absolutely essential to the organized human mind.

Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Brains: How They Seem to Work (FT Press Science)

Dale Purves

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Cover of Brains: How They Seem to Work (FT Press Science)

people with iqs over 125 are more likely to report same-sex attraction.

compared to amateurs, professionals use minimal mental resources when performing a complex activity.

David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind

were based on the study of epilepsy patients.