Free webinar: Knowns and Unknowns about Cognitive Excellence
We are excited to announce a new webinar on giftedness, hosted by the MDPI's Journal of Intelligence. The session will include presentations by Dr. Jakob Pietschnig, Prof. Dr. Tanja Gabriele Baudson, and Mr. Jonathan Fries.
From the website:
Research into characteristics of gifted individuals has shown that exceptionally high cognitive abilities are typically associated with desirable life outcomes. Large-scale efforts such as the Terman study or more recently the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) consistently yielded positive correlations between ...
2022 Conference Registration Now Open!
Conference registration is now open—click here to register. Registration will close on July 20, 2022.
You will need to have an account on our new membership platform before registering. If you haven’t yet set up your account, you can do so here.
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to April 22, 2022. Please submit your abstract if you haven't yet done so. Travel support is available for presenting graduate students and postdocs courtesy of the Institute for Mental Chronometry (IMC).
Our program for the 2022 meeting of the International ...
Journal of Intelligence: Special Issue on Giftedness
Jakob Pietschnig and Tanja Baudson will be editing a special issue titled “A Century beyond Terman: Knowns and Unknowns about Cognitive Excellence” in the Journal of Intelligence. This special issue is broadly focusing on the topic of cognitive abilities and giftedness.
Within this topical frame, empirical submissions are invited that focus on one or more of the following topics:
- Group differences between gifted vs. non-gifted populations;
- Predictors of exceptional cognitive abilities;
- Perception of gifted individuals;
- Cross-temporal changes in the ...
New article by Kirsten Hilger and colleagues
A new article on intelligence has just been published in Cerebral Cortex by our board member Kirsten Hilger and her colleagues! Read the article here, or visit IDW-online for a nice synopsis.
Thiele, J., Faskowitz, J., Sporns, O., & Hilger, K. (2022). Multi-Task Brain Network Reconfiguration is Inversely Associated with General Intelligence. Cerebral Cortex, 1-11.
Human intelligence is associated with adaptations of the brain to different cognitive demands: a new study shows that for brains of people with higher intelligence scores it is easier to adapt to ...
ISIR 2022 Vienna: Travel Support for PhD Students and Postdoctoral Students/Trainees
As we prepare for our upcoming Vienna conference in July, we are pleased to announce that enrolled PhD Students and Postdocs who have either an oral presentation or a poster accepted for the conference (as a presenting senior author) may be eligible for travel support, thanks to the generosity of the Institute of Mental Chronometry. Reimbursement for documented transportation, lodging & meal expenses of up to $1,000 for travel within Europe or up to $1,500 for travel for all others.
More information about this will be posted here, so please check in. We are very ...
