Saturday, October 31, 2015

Article: Can a test measure your imagination skills? | ideas.ted.com


Can a test measure your imagination skills? | ideas.ted.com
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Article: A brief history of our desire to peer into the brain


A brief history of our desire to peer into the brain
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151028-a-brief-history-of-our-desire-to-peer-into-the-brain

Related topics: Neuroscience, Mind, Museums

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Sharing Early childhood working memory forecasts high school dropout risk via BrowZine

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Early childhood working memory forecasts high school dropout risk
Fitzpatrick, Caroline; Archambault, Isabelle; Janosz, Michel; Pagani, Linda S.
Intelligence, Vol. 53 – 2015: 160 - 165

10.1016/j.intell.2015.10.002

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A reversal of the Flynn effect for spatial perception in German-speaking countries: Evidence from a cross-temporal IRT-based meta-analysis (1977–2014)
Pietschnig, Jakob; Gittler, Georg
Intelligence, Vol. 53 – 2015: 145 - 153

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Intelligence and school grades: A meta-analysis
Roth, Bettina; Becker, Nicolas; Romeyke, Sara; Schäfer, Sarah; Domnick, Florian; Spinath, Frank M.
Intelligence, Vol. 53 – 2015: 118 - 137

10.1016/j.intell.2015.09.002

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Structure of phonological ability at age four
Wolff, Ulrika; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric
Intelligence, Vol. 53 – 2015: 108 - 117

10.1016/j.intell.2015.09.003

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Article: Monclarity Raises $5M And Launches Its Brain-Training App Brainwell


Monclarity Raises $5M And Launches Its Brain-Training App Brainwell
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Scientists call for network of “brain observatories” to accelerate neurotechnology research and innovation [feedly]



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Scientists call for network of "brain observatories" to accelerate neurotechnology research and innovation
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A national network of neurotechnology centers for the BRAIN Initiative (press release):
"The authors of the original proposal for the Brain Activity Map (BAM) Project, which inspired the White House's BRAIN Initiative, issued today a position statement in Neuron proposing the creation of a national network of neurotechnology centers. These "brain observatories" would enhance and accelerate the BRAIN Initiative by leveraging the success and creativity of individual laboratories to develop novel neurotechnologies.
The authors present evidence of past success of existing national center-scale science efforts such as those sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) with the Human Genome Project where the rate of return on investment was both economically impressive and scientifically invaluable.…They raise the question: why are neuroscientists are still expected to work in isolation in the 21st Century?
The BAM authors propose a network of national Neurotechnology Centers as centralized "hubs" to coalesce cross-disciplinary efforts from a spectrum of participants in academic labs, corporate partners and public and private research institutes."
Statement: A National Network of Neurotechnology Centers for the BRAIN Initiative (Neuron)
  • Summary: We propose the creation of a national network of neurotechnology centers to enhance and accelerate the BRAIN Initiative and optimally leverage the effort and creativity of individual laboratories involved in it. As "brain observatories," these centers could provide the critical interdisciplinary environment both for realizing ambitious and complex technologies and for providing individual investigators with access to them.
  • From the full text: … From the Several center-scale efforts in neuroscience have recently been embarked upon by private research foundations, such as the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Howard Hughes Institute Janelia Farm campus; in certain respects, these initiatives might serve as potential models. However, while private-sector efforts will no doubt remain important participants in national efforts, they are necessarily limited in scope and focus. They are unlikely to assemble, manage, and sustain the deep and wide efforts needed for nucleating the technological revolution that we believe is possible. In fact, because the neurotechnology centers we advocate will ultimately benefit society at large, we believe they should exist within the public domain and be managed as a national resource. Jump-starting such national centers will require consensus among researchers, federal officials, and private organizations; to achieve this, inspired public leadership will be essential.
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Evolution of the WJ to WJ IV GIA and CHC clusters


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Long-time users of the various editions of the WJ cognitive battery (WJ, WJ-R, WJ III, WJ IV) know that the battery has continued to evolve over time.  Above is a portion of a large table that summarizes the same and different tests included in the GIA (g-score) and broad CHC clusters across editions.  The complete table demonstrates that the WJ has not remained static, with each new edition evolving as per research and theory.  

The practical benefit of the complete table comes when examiners want to compare scores from  similarly named cluster scores across different editions of the WJ--different scores may be due, in part, to different mixtures of tests in  clusters across editions.  I hope this is helpful.

The complete table can be downloaded here.  The table is adapted from a similar table in
Cormier, D., McGrew, K., Bulut, O., Funamoto, A. (2015).  Exploring the relationships between broad Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) cognitive abilities and reading achievement during the school-age years, Manuscript submitted for publication.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

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A Systematic Approach to Subgroup Classification in Intellectual Disability
Schalock, Robert L.; Luckasson, Ruth
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 53 Issue 5 – 2015: 358 - 366

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Bilingualism and Students (Learners) With Intellectual Disability: A Review
Ware, Jean; Lye, Catrin Bethan; Kyffin, Fliss
Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. 12 Issue 3 – 2015: 220 - 231

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Sunday, October 11, 2015

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Executive Function Development: Making Sense of the Environment to Behave Adaptively
Chevalier, N.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 24 Issue 5 – 2015: 363 - 368

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Article: The Brain's Central Planner


The Brain's Central Planner
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Sharing Complex problem solving and intelligence: A meta-analysis via BrowZine

Complex problem solving and intelligence: A meta-analysis
Stadler, Matthias; Becker, Nicolas; Gödker, Markus; Leutner, Detlev; Greiff, Samuel
Intelligence, Vol. 53 – 2015: 92 - 101

10.1016/j.intell.2015.09.005

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The Affective Neuroscience of Aging
Mather, Mara
Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 67 Issue 1 – 2016:

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Friday, October 09, 2015

Video: ISIR 2015 Lifetime interview with Robert Plomin & David Lubinski

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