Awesome Neuroscience Blog

Abstract Gifted individuals exhibit increased brain processing, receptivity, and behaviors for intellectual, emotional, sensory, creative, and motor functioning supported by many neuroscience studies. Several studies report increased brain volumes, efficiency of processing in brain networks, and utilization of different brain networks of high IQ (gifted) individuals as a core feature of their being. These increased brain volumes and efficiency networks play a critical role

Dear Spencer, For you on your eighth-grade graduation. I am in awe of the person you are. You teach me daily how to be better and to always question. In all of the time of the universe, light years, cosmos, you came to me like pinpoints of stars to ignite my imagination. Always imagine, every moment, every day, it is never idle or silly to imagine. Always know this: I love you no matter what. There is nothing about you that can disappoint me when you are being your truest

The creative brain engages unconventional brain networks where manifestation of divergent thinking emerges. A new study found when measuring connectivity within the brains of subjects, researchers could approximate how creative the subject’s ideas would be based on connectivity. The researchers found three subnetworks in the brain that are engaged during creative problem solving: the default mode network, the salience network and the executive functioning network. Interesti