The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience

This handbook introduces the reader to the thought-provoking research on the neural foundations of human intelligence. Written for undergraduate or graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and related fields, the chapters summarize research emerging from the rapidly developing neuroscience literature on human intelligence. The volume focusses on theoretical innovation and recent advances in the measurement, modelling, and characterization of the neurobiology of intelligence differences, especially from brain imaging studies. It summarizes fundamental issues in the characterization and measurement of general intelligence, and surveys multidisciplinary research consortia and large-scale data repositories for the study of general intelligence. A systematic review of neuroimaging methods for studying intelligence is provided, including structural and diffusion-weighted MRI techniques, functional MRI methods, and spectroscopic imaging of metabolic markers of intelligence.

About the Author

Aron K. Barbey is Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He directs the Center for Brain Plasticity, the Intelligence, Learning, and Plasticity Initiative, and the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

Sherif Karama is a psychiatrist with a PhD in neuroscience and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of McGill University. He also completed a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in Brain Imaging of Cognitive Ability Differences at the Montreal Neurological Institute.

Richard J. Haier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California at Irvine, and Editor-in-Chief of Intelligence, a scientific journal. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Intelligence Research (2020).