Two cheers for the cognitive irregulars: Intelligence’s contributions to ageing well and staying alive
Here, intelligence is taken to mean scores from psychometric tests of cognitive functions. This essay describes how cognitive tests offer assessments of brain functioning—an otherwise difficult-to-assess organ—that have proved enduringly useful in the field of health and medicine. The two “consequen...
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MDPI AG
2021
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