A recent scientific study showed that the IQ of the individual may change during adolescence, contrary to what he thought of the value of the fixed factors, which reflect the mental capacity of the individual.
Where the study carried out by a research team from the University of "London College" in Britain that IQ is not fixed factors, and that the average rate of change up to twenty points, within a period of not more than a few years.
As explained in the results of the study conducted on 33 teenagers, the British, that there are subtle changes in the rates of intelligence at this stage, as shown from the results of adolescents who underwent intelligence tests standard in 2004, then re-test after four years, to include the peak years of adolescence.
The findings revealed subtle changes in the composition of the brain using a technique functional magnetic resonance imaging, which indicated that IQ, which is used most often to predict the academic performance of the individual and employment opportunities available to him, he became more flexible than previously thought, and more affected by the effects, external, such as neglect.
In the same context, said Cathy Bryce, one of the leading researchers in the team from the Centre "and the Wellcome Trust" for Neuroimaging University, said that the rate of change estimated twenty points is a big difference, which allows for varying differences in intelligence in gifted and ordinary people, as well as the difference may be the individual to move from the category of normal intelligence to classify the people below average.
Also through Robert Blooming - Researcher in the field of genetics of intelligence from the University of Kings College London - expressed surprise at the results, describing it as an amazing and very stressing at the same time that in the event confirmed the validity of these results, it highlights the fact that environmental factors occur change in the brain and intelligence during the short period of time.
Source: The Jerusalem Press
Where the study carried out by a research team from the University of "London College" in Britain that IQ is not fixed factors, and that the average rate of change up to twenty points, within a period of not more than a few years.
As explained in the results of the study conducted on 33 teenagers, the British, that there are subtle changes in the rates of intelligence at this stage, as shown from the results of adolescents who underwent intelligence tests standard in 2004, then re-test after four years, to include the peak years of adolescence.
The findings revealed subtle changes in the composition of the brain using a technique functional magnetic resonance imaging, which indicated that IQ, which is used most often to predict the academic performance of the individual and employment opportunities available to him, he became more flexible than previously thought, and more affected by the effects, external, such as neglect.
In the same context, said Cathy Bryce, one of the leading researchers in the team from the Centre "and the Wellcome Trust" for Neuroimaging University, said that the rate of change estimated twenty points is a big difference, which allows for varying differences in intelligence in gifted and ordinary people, as well as the difference may be the individual to move from the category of normal intelligence to classify the people below average.
Also through Robert Blooming - Researcher in the field of genetics of intelligence from the University of Kings College London - expressed surprise at the results, describing it as an amazing and very stressing at the same time that in the event confirmed the validity of these results, it highlights the fact that environmental factors occur change in the brain and intelligence during the short period of time.
Source: The Jerusalem Press