Intelligence+Quotient

**Intelligence Quotient ** ** How do brains with a higher IQ differ from normal brains? ** ﻿ By: Giovanna Gómez media type="file" key="Ludovico Einaudi Nuvole Bianche Original.mp3" align="left"

**Ways brains of people with a high IQ, differ from people with normal IQs?**  · Certain scans show brain development and scientists analyze the changes in thickness of the cerebral cortex. · Research has shown that parts of the frontal lobe of the cortex are larger in people with high IQs.

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· The main difference in the cortex is related to its maturation. Usually average children reach their peek of thickness by the time they are 7 or 8 years old. High intelligent children reach their peekness when they turn around 13 years old.

**What affects intelligence?** · What affect intelligence in the brain are the brain development and its factors. · It doesnt quite matter the sheer brain development or the structural development, what does matter are the patterns of childhood growth. · Factors such as the way the child was raised and the people that influence him. · Children with a high IQ show patterns of development a little different from people with normal IQs. Their patterns are visible in the prefrontal cortex where the analytical thinking is done.