Which Parts Of The Brain Control Intelligence?

Instead of one lone “IQ spot” in the brain, psychologists recognize that multiple regions contribute to our problem-solving and reasoning abilities.

The brainstem connects the brain to the spinal cord and regulates automatic, life-sustaining functions.

While a child’s brain grows rapidly in size during early childhood, the prefrontal cortex continues developing in complexity and function well into early adulthood.

Despite the name, they aren’t “ganglia” in the peripheral sense but rather clusters of neurons (nuclei) inside the central nervous system.

The cingulate cortex is a paired region located on the medial surface of the cerebral hemispheres, arching above the corpus callosum.