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posted by chromas on Thursday August 01 2019, @10:55AM   Printer-friendly

What the brains of people with excellent general knowledge look like: Some people seem to have an answer to every general knowledge question; why?

The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired.

[...] The researchers examined the brains of 324 men and women with a special form of magnetic resonance imaging called diffusion tensor imaging. This makes it possible to reconstruct the pathways of nerve fibres and thus gain an insight into the structural network properties of the brain. By means of mathematical algorithms, the researchers assigned an individual value to the brain of each participant, which reflected the efficiency of his or her structural fibre network.

The participants also completed a general knowledge test called the Bochum Knowledge Test, which was developed in Bochum by Dr. Rüdiger Hossiep. It is comprised of over 300 questions from various fields of knowledge such as art and architecture or biology and chemistry. The team led by Erhan Genç finally investigated whether the efficiency of structural networking is associated with the amount of general knowledge stored.

The result: People with a very efficient fibre network had more general knowledge than those with less efficient structural networking.

The Neural Architecture of General Knowledge. European Journal of Personality, 2019; DOI: 10.1002/per.2217


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 01 2019, @05:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 01 2019, @05:11PM (#874147)

    FTFY... Here is what the brains of Twitter users looks like:

    I think we may now need an "Even Funnier" mod. Just sayin'.