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2019 Lifetime Achievement Award for Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski

ISIR Lifetime Achievement Award  ISIR has awarded Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski its highest honour: the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence.  Congratulations to them both. Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski are best known for leading the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). This study is globally unique: five cohorts of intellectually talented youth identified over 25 years (1972-1997) and longitudinally tracked throughout their lifespan. Their work has identified educationally efficacious interventions for meeting the learning needs of gifted youth, which also ...

Winner of Best Student Talk at ISIR 2019

For the second year running, Ms Emily Willoughby  won the Best Student Talk at ISIR 2019, with The First Longitudinal Investigation of Cognitive Ability in Adult Adoptive Families.  Huge congratulations to Emily, who says ". . . what an honor to receive the award twice. Not sure if deserved, but certainly appreciated." Emily is starting her fourth year of a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, where she works in personality, individual differences & behavioral genetics with James J. Lee and Matt McGue. With a background in biology, Emily’s research interests center on the genetics of cognitive ability, but she also enjoys ...

Distinguished Contributor Interview, ISIR 2019 conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota

David Lubinski interviews Randall W. Engle, Georgia Institute of Technology Randy Engle is a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Randy is known for his research on working memory, attention control, and intelligence. Specifically, his research takes a combined experimental/correlational approach to investigate the nature of working memory capacity, the causes of its limitations, its role in applied cognitive tasks, and the relationships between working memory, attention, and fluid intelligence. His work has received funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Air Force Office of ...

INTELLIGENCE special issue OUT NOW

A special issue of INTELLIGENCE on cognitive abilities in other animals is OUT NOW.  There will be 50 days of free open access. Here are links for you to follow: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZA6PaSXLqT65 https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZA6P_3fG8atLF … https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZA6PaSXLmexN https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZA6PaSXLmeo3 https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZA6PaSXLmevy https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZA6PaSXLmetg https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZA6PaSXLirWY

Professor Rex Jung is incoming ISIR President Elect

We are delighted to announce that Professor Rex Jung has been voted as the President Elect for ISIR.  Congratulations to Prof Jung who is an outstanding creativity researcher and practising neuropsychologist.