Study Shows Music Prodigies Beat Math Prodigies With Numbers And Art Prodigies Are Awful At Shapes
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 08:33
in Psychology & Sociology
At age 6, Mozart performed at the court of the Prince-elect Maximilian II of Bavaria. At age 8, Joy Foster represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Caribbean championships in Trinidad. What do the brains of these two child prodigies have in common? Not as much as you might think: a study published this week in the journal Intelligence shows that one size brain does not fit all prodigies – the brains of math prodigies are different than those of art prodigies are different than those of music prodigies. But for every prodigy, there's a profile: distinct brain abilities help to make astounding performance possible. read more