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Emotional, psychological and social issues affecting people with exceptional ability and multiple talents. Meeting needs of academically gifted students and adults.
Also see Articles: gifted / talented / high ability, related bookmarks, the High Ability site, GT Adults, and the Dabrowski / advanced development page.
Also see Articles: gifted / talented / high ability, related bookmarks, the High Ability site, GT Adults, and the Dabrowski / advanced development page.
Pumping our teeming brain
- By Douglas Eby
- Published 10/4/2008
- Neuroscience , High Ability - gifted/talented , Creativity enhancement
Are people fascinated by so much in the world because of their intellectual development, or does consciously feeding our mind stimulate high level thought and creative ability? Steve Pavlina, for example, writes, "Leonardo da Vinci, considered a genius by any reasonable standard, achieved competence across a diverse set of fields, including art, music, science, anatomy, engineering, architecture, and many others. While some would argue that such wide-ranging interests were a result of his intelligence, I think it is more likely that they were the cause of it - or at least a major contributing factor."His Brain Measured Up
- By Misc Author
- Published 08/26/2008
- High Ability - gifted/talented
By Steven Pinker - People have long wondered about the source of genius. Neuroscientists examining the brain of Albert Einstein said it had large
and unusually shaped inferior parietal lobules, a seat of mathematical
and spatial reasoning... Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and
function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably,
genius.
Scientists dissect mystery of genius
- By Misc Author
- Published 07/23/2008
- High Ability - gifted/talented
As a neurosurgeon, I don't normally slice brains open, right down the middle, so this will give me a different perspective. With pathologist Robert Reichard and Rex Jung, a psychologist at the
MIND Institute who studies creativity, we head to the dissection room. When looking for creativity inside a human brain, the first thing you notice is -- nothing unusual. Most scientists say that current brain imaging technology doesn't tell you much more. But Jung and his colleague Dr. Richard Haier of the University of
California, Irvine, claim they are on the verge of refining imaging
techniques to a point that would make traditional intelligence tests
obsolete.
Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment
- By Misc Author
- Published 05/13/2008
- Teen/Young Adult Talent , High Ability - gifted/talented
Often it seems as though American higher education exists only to
provide gag material for the outside world.
The
latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her
students because, she claims, their "anti-intellectualism" violated her
civil rights.
Are gifted students getting left out?
- By Misc Author
- Published 05/13/2008
- Teen/Young Adult Talent , High Ability - gifted/talented
Highly intelligent, talented students need special programs to keep
them engaged and challenged.
But
experts say too often they aren't even identified -- especially in
low-income and minority schools.
Positive Abnormality
- By Misc Author
- Published 03/1/2008
- High Ability - gifted/talented
Great people are great in the sense that they are
willing to explore their own specialty and values, and have the courage
and insistence to apply their values to society, creating something
meaningful.
How to be a genius
- By Misc Author
- Published 02/16/2008
- High Ability - gifted/talented
A sober look at any field shows that the top performers are rarely more gifted than the also-rans, but they almost invariably outwork them. This doesn't mean that some people aren't more athletic or smarter than others. The elite are elite partly because they have some genetic gifts - for learning and hand-eye coordination, for instance - but the very best rise because they take great pains to maximise that gift.Nerds - the book
- By Misc Author
- Published 02/13/2008
- High Ability - gifted/talented
To child psychologist David Anderegg, the nerd stereotype is not just a fleeting playground obstacle. It represents a particularly American strain of anti-intellectualism that has plagued the culture since Ralph Waldo Emerson endorsed the idea that Americans were “men of action, not men of reflection.”
Gifted Adults
- By Misc Author
- Published 12/11/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented
By Cheryl M. Ackerman, Ph.D. -- In
a society that largely considers gifted adults to be those who have
achieved some significance in their field, and which focuses almost all
of its attention (when it pays any at all) on gifted children, it is
challenging to think about gifted adults in other ways.
Interviews with Carol Dweck
- By Carol Dweck
- Published 12/10/2007
- High Ability - gifted/talented
Prof. Dweck talks [in multiple videos] about how people's beliefs concerning their own intelligence affects whether they can use and grow their
skills.