{"id":27179,"date":"2016-06-24T20:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T03:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/brain-markers-of-numeric-verbal-and-spatial-reasoning-abilities-found"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:30:18","slug":"brain-markers-of-numeric-verbal-and-spatial-reasoning-abilities-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/brain-markers-of-numeric-verbal-and-spatial-reasoning-abilities-found","title":{"rendered":"Brain markers of numeric, verbal, and spatial reasoning abilities found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-markers-of-numeric-verbal-and-spatial-reasoning-abilities-found.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Brain Chemistry and Fluid Intelligence\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-markers-of-numeric-verbal-and-spatial-reasoning-abilities-found.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"421\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>A new study found that higher concentrations of NAA (N-acetyl aspartate) in two areas of the brain were associated with better performance on verbal and spatial tests. NAA is a byproduct of glucose metabolism and an indicator of brain health. (credit: Julie McMahon and Erick Paul)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>A new study helps explain how brain structure and chemistry relate to \u201cfluid intelligence\u201d \u2014 the ability to adapt to new situations and solve problems one has never encountered before.<\/p>\n<p>The study, reported in an open-access paper in the journal <em>NeuroImage<\/em>, observed two facets of fluid intelligence*:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/brain-markers-of-numeric-verbal-and-spatial-reasoning-abilities-found\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/brain-markers-of-numeric-verbal-an...ties-found<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study found that higher concentrations of NAA (N-acetyl aspartate) in two areas of the brain were associated with better performance on verbal and spatial tests. NAA is a byproduct of glucose metabolism and an indicator of brain health. (credit: Julie McMahon and Erick Paul) A new study helps explain how brain structure and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50225,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27179\/revisions\/50225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}