So these people should be able to recover from stroke better because they should be able to stop the synergy of all your muscles moving. Well I consider myself in that category and it hasn't helped my recovery one bit.
The analysis article here:
http://saypeople.com/2013/05/24/people-with-higher-iq-have-the-ability-to-get-rid-of-distractions/#axzz2USgJvFRo
The abstract here:
A Strong Interactive Link between Sensory Discriminations and Intelligence
- Highlights
- IQ scores are predicted by individual differences in sensory discriminations
- High IQ is associated with motion perception impairments as stimulus size increases
- The results link intelligence and low-level suppression of sensory information
- Suppressive processes are a key constraint of both intelligence and perception
Summary
Early
psychologists, including Galton, Cattell, and Spearman, proposed that
intelligence and simple sensory discriminations are constrained by
common neural processes, predicting a close link between them [
1,
2].
However, strong supporting evidence for this hypothesis remains
elusive. Although people with higher intelligence quotients (IQs) are
quicker at processing sensory stimuli [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5],
these broadly replicated findings explain a relatively modest
proportion of variance in IQ. Processing speed alone is, arguably, a
poor match for the information processing demands on the neural system.
Our brains operate on overwhelming amounts of information [
6,
7], and thus their efficiency is fundamentally constrained by an ability to suppress irrelevant information [
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21].
Here, we show that individual variability in a simple visual
discrimination task that reflects both processing speed and perceptual
suppression [
22]
strongly correlates with IQ. High-IQ individuals, although quick at
perceiving small moving objects, exhibit disproportionately large
impairments
in perceiving motion as stimulus size increases. These findings link
intelligence with low-level sensory suppression of large moving
patterns—background-like stimuli that are ecologically less relevant [
22,
23,
24,
25].
We conjecture that the ability to suppress irrelevant and rapidly
process relevant information fundamentally constrains both sensory
discriminations and intelligence, providing an information-processing
basis for the observed link.
I consider myself in this category too and getting rid of distractions is one of my major problems. I get distracted and then obssess over everything.
ReplyDeleteI can't watch TV and read at the same time any more, could prestroke no more TV as backgroung must be off now for me to read.
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