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SUMMARY:What We Need to Know about Intelligence but Do Not' - Dr Wendy Joh
 nson\, Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognit
 ive Epidemiology\, University of Edinburgh.
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Today we have many exciting new technological tools that allow
  us to observe the brain and genome and lure us into new kinds of studies.
  We?re excited to apply these tools to see where what we test as intellige
 nce is in the brain and what genes determine its level\, or whether these 
 tools can finally debunk the idea that we measure anything with those test
 s. I believe\, however\, that we will not be able to make effective use of
  these tools in either cause until we understand better what we mean to me
 asure when we measure intelligence\, how it develops\, and the impact of t
 he clear presence of gene-environment correlation on its development. My t
 alk will address the things I think we need to know but presently do not.\
 n \nBiography\n\nWendy Johnson grew up in Tacoma\, Washington\, graduating
  in mathematics from Occidental College in Los Angeles. She spent many yea
 rs as a consulting casualty actuary in the San Francisco Bay Area before e
 ntering the doctoral program in psychology at the University of Minnesota\
 , completing her degree in 2005.  She has two offspring. Wendy researches 
 individual differences in mental abilities\, personality\, academic achiev
 ement\, and later-life health\, emphasizing transactions between genetic a
 nd environmental influences. She is currently in the Department of Psychol
 ogy and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the Univ
 ersity of Edinburgh.\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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