Intelligence resides everywhere in our brain

SHOOT: If your brain is fully networked, left and right working in sync, you're creative and logic, imaginative and reasoning, then you'll be more intelligent. Holes develop in the mind/brain due to bad memories, physical abuse, drug addiction, and negative habits. I think this says a lot for having an open mind, and the wisdom of being open to consider possibilities.

clipped from www.newscientist.com For decades scientists have tried, mostly in vain, to explain where intelligence resides in our brains. The answer, a new study suggests, is everywhere. After analysing the brain as an incredibly dense network of interconnected points, a team of Dutch scientists has found that the most efficiently wired brains tend to belong to the most intelligent people. The concept of a networked brain isn't so different from the transportation grids used by cars and planes, says Martijn van den Heuvel, a neuroscientist at Utrecht University Medical Center who led the new study. The subjects' brains, of course, didn't go completely quiet, and the researchers reasoned that any brain activity they measured represented underlying connectivity between brain regions, near and far. "We show that more intelligent people don't have more connections, but they have more efficiently placed connections," he says. "We're looking at communication between brain regions, so why shouldn't we be able to influence that?"