2014 Lifetime Achievement Award: Ian Deary
The Lifetime Achievement Award is ISIR’s highest honor, reserved for individuals who have, over their professional lifetime, substantially advanced the field of intelligence.
The 2014 awardee was Professor Ian Deary
Interviewed for the award, Professor Deary summed up his work as follows:
"I feel like four different people in intelligence research,” says ISIR’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2014, Ian Deary. “I started by being, and still am, intrigued by the fact that simple-seeming measures of processing speed correlate strongly with higher-level cognit...
Get your paper published session at ISIR Graz
Academic publishing is a competitive field. It can be daunting for researchers starting their careers. But there are important steps that, as an Author, you can follow in preparing your manuscript for a successful publication. Hear the publisher’s perspective.”
This one hour session at ISIR in Graz will have ample room for your questions.
Tweeting Graz #IQ2014
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]long with blogging, news releases and other communications, Twitter is now a significant component for sharing and bringing attention to new discoveries.
The hashtag for ISIR 2014 in Graz will be #IQ2014
Feel free to append this to tweets about your preparations for the conference, and live events.
If you're new to twitter, why not grab an account and make some new friends: You'll be surprised who's on board.
Here's a handy guide to tweeting for conferences
Consensus emerging: Intelligence is central to cognition, and critical to our future
First, Jon Wai's finding the next Einstein blog hosts an interview with ISIR Founder, and Lifetime achievement award winner, Douglas Detterman noting just how very important the ability of people is to our past, present, and, most importantly, to our future.
And in the same week, an (open) paper in Molecular Psychiatry (pdf here) showing that IQ research needs to be treated as a core component of cognition research: This highlights 5 fascinating knowns, and open doors for understanding what is currently unknown: how genes build brighter brains.
Both make great ...
Art Jensen's Archives… Now (mostly) online!!
The Arthur Jensen archives are now online or searchable.
In total, some 37 boxes of documents of correspondence, data!, professional materials and personal materials are available.
Digital material is online, and other material can be searched and located.
