Those with classically positive lifestyles, behaviors had different brain connections to those with classically negative ones
The researchers point out that their results resemble what psychologists refer to as the ‘general intelligence g-factor’: a variable first proposed in 1904 that’s sometimes used to summarize a person’s abilities at different cognitive tasks. While the new results include many real-life measures not included in the g-factor – such as income and life satisfaction, for instance — those such as memory, pattern recognition and reading ability are strongly mirrored.
A team of scientists led by the University’s Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain has investigated the connections in the brains of 461 people and compared them with 280 different behavioural and demographi...
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