Looking Down on Human Intelligence: From Psychometrics to the Brain

by Ian J. Deary

What is it about human brains that make some people more capable than others? In an authoritative and critical account, Professor Ian Dreary reviews historical, cognitive, and biological research on the foundations of human mental ability. Where most previous accounts of intelligence have examined how human mental ability can predict success in education, work, and social life, few books have taken as a starting point mental ability (and individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019852417X
• ISBN13: 9780198524175
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 11.3"