The Neuroscience of Intelligence

Richard J. Haier is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He pioneered the use of neuroimaging to study intelligence in 1988 and has given invited lectures at meetings sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the European Molecular Biology Organization, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2013, he created video lectures, The Intelligent Brain, for The Great Courses. In 2016, he served as President of the International Society for Intelligence Research and became Editor-in-Chief of Intelligence. In 2020, he received the Life Time Achievement Award from the International Society of Intelligence Research. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience (2021) and the co-author of The Science of Human Intelligence (due 2023). Dr. Haier has discussed intelligence research on many podcasts including with Jordan Peterson, Scott Barry Kaufman, and Lex Fridman.

Preface to first edition; Preface to second edition; 1. What we know about intelligence from the weigh of studies; 2. Nature more than nurture: the impact of genetics on intelligence; 3. Peeking inside the living brain: neuroimaging is a game change for intelligence research; 4. 50 shades of gray matter: a brain image of intelligence is worth a thousand words; 5. The holy grail: can neuroscience boost intelligence?; 6. As neuroscience advances, what's next for intelligence research?; Glossary.