Neurophysiology of Giftedness – Some references (3)

The sole psychological approach of giftedness was not satisfying for me. I needed to understand the cerebral “mechanics” of giftedness.

The University of Mc Gill runs a very interesting site regarding the brain : “The Brain from top to bottom“.  You get information, depending on whether you are a beginner or an advanced reader, and on the fields you want to study.

My friend Mc Fly (chatter nickname) who is a also a doctor, taught me about Pub Med. By iteration (and after reading pages and pages of scientific communications titles), I could finally reach communications which were highlighting  differences in cellular architecture or information process speed.

Among them :

[The cytoarchitectonic characteristics of the frontal fields of the brain in gifted people] – [Article in Russian] – Orzhekhovskaia NS. –  PMID: 8983488 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE].

[The cytoarchitectonic characteristics of the speech center of the brain in gifted people in the plan to study individual variability of human brain structure] – [Article in Russian] – Bogolepova IN. – PMID: 8718633 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE] .

Functional neural anatomy of talent – Kalbfleisch ML – Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and Graduate School of Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. mkalbfle@gmu.edu – Anat Rec (Part B: New Anat) 277B:21-36, 2004. © 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.  (Full text in pdf)

Developmentally advanced EEG alpha power in gifted male and female adolescents – Alexander JE, O’Boyle MW, Benbow CP – Department of Psychology, Western Oregon State College Monmouth 97361, USA. Alexanj@fsa.wosc.osshe.edu – PMID: 8880363 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

Differences in EEG Alpha Activity Related to Giftedness by Jausovec, Norbert – JOURNAL_CITATION: Intelligence; v23 n3 p159-73 Nov-Dec 1996 ISSN: 0160-2896 ERIC_NO: EJ548366

Development of mental attention in gifted and mainstream children: the role of mental capacity, inhibition, and speed of processing – Johnson J, Im-Bolter N, Pascual-Leone J. – Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. janicej@yorku.ca – Child Dev. 2003 Nov-Dec;74(6):1594-614.- PMID: 14669884 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE] (Full text in pdf)

Neural perspectives of cerebral correlates of giftedness – Chen AC, Buckley KC – Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.