Brain's intelligence area located

Britain - Intelligence appears to have a physical basis and be wired into a specific brain region, scientists said today.

Britain - Intelligence appears to have a physical basis and be wired into a specific brain region, scientists said today.

Using a scanning technique which relates blood flow to brain activity, researchers found one brain area that seems to be the seat of intelligence - the lateral frontal cortex. When volunteers carried out tasks designed to test general intelligence, activity was boosted only in this area.

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