{"id":30433,"date":"2025-10-14T21:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearskyits.com\/?p=30433"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:13:39","slug":"how-do-motor-regions-of-the-brain-drive-fluid-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearskyits.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/how-do-motor-regions-of-the-brain-drive-fluid-100\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Motor Regions of the Brain Drive Fluid Intelligence?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This all happens very early in life and relies on both of our eyes receiving visual input. The period of early life when our brains are developing is called the critical period. During the critical period, synapses that receive visual stimulation and pass on action potentials into the visual cortex are retained and strengthened. Synapses that do not receive visual stimulation, so the neurones between them are not firing, are removed. This means that if visual stimulation does not occur during the critical period (i.e. if a baby is born with cataracts which cerebrumiq<\/a> obscure vision or if they are born in a cave) then their visual cortex will not develop properly because many of the synapses will have been destroyed.<\/p>\n

Followingsurgery, patients did indeed become less anxious and withdrawn, although theirintellectual level remained ostensibly unchanged. Also – since surgery reduceddisruptive emotional responses – the ability to interact socially tended toreturn. It is therefore in close communication with what isknown as the “limbic system”, and thus with the full range ofthe brain’s emotional and motivational systems. The prefrontal region ingeneral is commonly linked with such functions as problem solving, behaviourplanning, working memory glossary, and eyemovements.<\/p>\n

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It follows that “if frontallobe function spans a substantial range of performance among ‘normal’individuals, the task of identifying frontal dysfunction is bound to bedifficult” (p3). Bishop(1993) has speculated on a possible relationship between executive functionsand “theory of mind”, thus making frontal lobe psychology directlyrelevant to clinicians dealing with autistic children ….. Goeland Grafman (1995) have pointed to the dangers of presuming that thesuperficially similar Tower of Hanoi and Shallice’s (1982) Tower of Londontests actually measure the same thing, and can therefore be usedinterchangeably.<\/p>\n