Psychology

Since few decades, there has been rapid advancement in the field of science and technology that enabled humans to identify and explain different processes of human intelligence, a major notion for experts globally. The selected article is an attempt of Emily Singer that has played a remarkable role in explaining the notion of intelligence while relating it with human brain. In the earlier section of the article, Emily discussed that since many years, there has been practice of understanding intelligence in the form of IQ however, majority of scientists have focused on explaining it in connection with human brains structure that has resulted in different controversies.

Moreover, Emily argued and subsequently, highlighted the importance of MRI that is now allowing scientists to concentrate on specific areas of brain that really play a considerable role in human intelligence rather than in all areas of human brain that somehow trapped the scientists until few years ago. Emily discussed that such new approach of scientists for understanding human intelligence will be very valuable in acquiring comprehensive understanding of different diseases that are more neurological in nature. In this regard, an important notion or argument of this article is the significance of connections rather than the number of neurons in the human brain. In other words, scientists are now putting efforts to understand connections in the human brain and their quality that are more important than the neurons.

Furthermore, Emily has discussed another technology namely diffusion tensor imaging that has surpassed results of MRI, and is enabling scientists to acquire finer results as compared to the results of MRI that do not illustrate signals, and specifically white matter of the human brain that is in closer connection with the human intelligence. Besides connections, scientists have identified an important function of the human brain that is frontal-lobe function, playing an important role in the IQ. This function is simply associated with the speed of brain activities, and different scientists and theorists are putting efforts to explain the role of speed of the brain functions that also play crucial role in discussing the efficiency of the brain.

Lastly, author argued that it is still ambiguous, and it will take time for scientists to explain the relation of human intelligence, cognitive activities, and brain connections in a comprehensive and accurate manner. Perhaps, humans can continue to put efforts and understand different functions of the human intelligence as they have continued to do so in the past. Conclusively, the paper has discussed some of the significant aspects of human intelligence. It is an expectation that the paper will be beneficial for students, teachers, and professionals in better understanding of the topic.