IQ
The Gf-CODE Cognitive Training Framework
This article provides an introduction to the Gf-CODE cognitive training approach that I am adopting with my IQ Mindware apps. . It is inspired by a number of brain training studies published in late 2018 and 2019. Two of these are meta-analyses looking at all relevant studies to date. Meta-analyses enable us to draw ‘state […]
Principles of Effective Cognitive Training: Core Hubs Cognitive Training Framework
Core Hubs Cognitive Training Model The Core Hubs model depicts three overlapping ‘core hub’ functional networks – for fluid intelligence, self- regulation and incubation – distributed between the Executive (Cognitive Control) Network and the Default Mode Network as shown in these Venn diagrams. Core hubs training framework is designed for far transfer training […]
The Process Overlap Theory. A Unified Account of G and IQ Augmentation 2. Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence, Cognitive Workload and other Concepts Explained.
In Part1 of my extended account of Process Overlap Theory I explained how general intelligence (g) is a statistical fiction that doesn’t represent any real psychological processes or neural mechanisms in the brain. What is real in the brain when we take an IQ test or apply our intelligence are ‘domain general’ executive processes (with […]
The Process Overlap Theory. A Unified Account of g and IQ Augmentation 1. General Intelligence (g) Is Not Real!
Kovacs & Conway’s (2016) Process Overlap Theory (POT) is the latest general, unified theory of intelligence based on the current body of evidence, with profound implications for cognitive training and intelligence augmentation. . It is a good starting point for understanding the nature of intelligence and the human mind more generally, and is worth reading digested content here […]
Psychometric IQ : Definitions
WHAT IS GENERAL INTELLIGENCE? Intelligence Definitions A good cognitive science definition of general intelligence is: “. . . that facet of mind underlying our capacity to think, to solve novel problems, to reason and to have knowledge of the world.” M. Anderson Note that the definition emphasizes abstract cognitive processes: thinking and reasoning and […]