What Is the Brain Basis of Intelligence?

Duncan J (2010) How Intelligence Happens. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 256 p. ISBN 978-0300154115 (hardcover). US$28.00.

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001078.g001

Duncan, Assistant Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge (United Kingdom), has brought together material from psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, brain imaging, and single-cell recording studies to develop a theory of human intelligence. The book is intended for a lay audience—and thus is written in nontechnical language with relaxed, anecdotal sections and personal stories interspersed with descriptions of experimental results—but it will be enjoyed by professionals who want to learn about frontal lobe function and modern ideas of human intelligence./.../