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Poverty significantly saps our mental abilities say researchers
BBC: Being poor can sap a person’s mental resources, research published in the journal Science suggests. The work, by an international team, demonstrates how poverty takes its toll on cognitive function, leaving less mental capacity
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Why Can’t My Computer Understand Me?
The New Yorker: Hector Levesque thinks his computer is stupid—and that yours is, too. Siri and Google’s voice searches may be able to understand canned sentences like “What movies are showing near me at seven
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science. Time in Perspective Andrei Gorea and Janice Hau Researchers know that the perceived size of an object increases as its perceived distance from an observer increases (Emmert’s
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Study Finds Spatial Skill Is Early Sign of Creativity
The New York Times: A gift for spatial reasoning — the kind that may inspire an imaginative child to dismantle a clock or the family refrigerator — may be a greater predictor of future creativity
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Early Spatial Reasoning Predicts Later Creativity and Innovation, Especially in STEM Fields
Exceptional spatial ability at age 13 predicts creative and scholarly achievements over 30 years later, according to results from a new longitudinal study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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Grit Versus Aptitude: Relative Influence of Effort and Intelligence in Academic Success
In educational research, an age-old question has remained unanswered: Does IQ or hard work matter more in predicting success in school? Intellectual gifts have been studied extensively, but other non-cognitive factors contributing to success have
