Intelligence QuotientHow do brains with a higher IQ differ from normal brains?By: Giovanna Gómez
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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.




· 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.




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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.