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Provides an explanation of IQ and human intelligence. This book begins by rejecting some of the most basic assumptions that psychologists make about intelligence, including that intelligence should be defined by behaviour. It uses scientific findings about the brain to show how changes in the brain lead to understanding.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 A Surprisingly New Definition of Intelligence: The Ability to Understand(p. 9)
• 2 Measuring the Ability to Understand(p. 25)
• 3 What IQ Tells Us About the Ability to Understand(p. 47)
• 4 What Brain Science Tells Us About Understanding(p. 71)
• 5 Using Brain Science to Explain Differences in the Ability to Understand(p. 101)
• 6 How the Brain Produces Human Intelligence(p. 133)
• 7 A Sensitive Period for Learning the Ability to Understand(p. 159)
• 8 How a Child Can Be a Genius(p. 181)
• 9 What it Means for Childhood Education(p. 195)
• Endnotes(p. 213)
• References(p. 225)
• Index(p. 241)

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Dennis Garlick received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Sydney in 2003 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation focused on using the recent advances in the brain sciences to provide a new approach to explaining human intelligence. This approach was accepted for publication in The Psychological Review, often considered to be the most prestigious peer-reviewed psychology journal in the world. This publication led to the American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society both issuing press releases publicizing this work, indicating its importance to the general public. More recently, the famous scientific journal Nature published a report confirming the validity of this approach for explaining IQ and human intelligence.