Results indicate that altered blood oxygen level–dependent variability holds promise as a novel neurobiological marker for detecting alterations in cerebral perfusion and neuronal functioning in sport-related concussion, motivating future research to establish and validate clinical assessment protocols that can incorporate advanced neuroimaging methods to characterize altered cerebral physiology following mild traumatic brain injury.
Following a national search, Aron Barbey was selected as the new director of the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Recent evidence in network neuroscience indicates that general intelligence may depend on system-wide network mechanisms, suggesting that the spatially localized predictions of standard theories may be necessary but not sufficient to account for the neural architecture of intelligence. To investigate this key theoretical issue, we directly compared the predictions of local versus global theories within a connectome-based predictive modeling framework, demonstrating that general intelligence can be predicted by local functional connectivity profiles but is most accurately explained by global profiles of whole-brain connectivity.
The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence Cognitive Neuroscience reviews state-of-the-art research emerging from the rapidly developing neuroscience literature on human intelligence, with particular emphasis on theoretical innovation, methodological advances, and applications for research on cognitive enhancement, clinical translation, and education and public policy.
An article by Forbes features research on the neurobiology of emotional intelligence and addresses implications for the design of artificial intelligence.
U. of I. psychology professor Aron Barbey and his colleagues found that the relative size of specific brain regions predicted how much a person would benefit from interventions designed to enhance fluid intelligence.
“Our goal in this project is to improve how the individual war fighter identifies, measures, and tracks personalized biomarkers and therefore to help them prepare more effectively for specialized roles in their military career” said Aron Barbey, a professor of psychology. “We will work closely with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as part of the test and evaluation team for the Measuring Biological Aptitude program.”
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will fund two projects for research on human performance optimization within United States war fighters at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
For Neuroscience Research on the Network Architecture of Human Intelligence, Barbey Wins the Second Mensa Foundation Prize
Barbey edits Special Issue in the Journal Intelligence, entitled “Advancing the Science of Human and Machine Intelligence: Forging Connections between Psychology, Neuroscience, and Engineering.”
