Controlling attention with brain waves

Re:Controlling attention with brain waves by navidr on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:59PM (#21727942)

Does attention has any correlation to IQ? I mean is it possible to have an IQ of 180, but perform with IQ 120 because of lack of attention?

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Re:Controlling attention with brain waves by tomjakubowski on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:41PM (#21728109)

Anecdata, sample size 1: When I was a teenager struggling in school because of attention issues, a psychiatrist had me take a test which suggested so. IQ and a few memory/recall-related tasks measured a bit higher when I was medicated with Adderall than without it.

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Re:Controlling attention with brain waves by raducu on Saturday December 07, 2019 @05:32AM (#21729513)

That should be controlled against simply repeating the test and simply giving "normal" people adderal during iq testing.

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Re:Controlling attention with brain waves by navidr on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:09AM (#21728943)

Do you remember the % difference?

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Re:Controlling attention with brain waves by symplee on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:14PM (#21728001)

Absolutely. 90% of HN readers do it everyday.

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Re:Controlling attention with brain waves by piracy1 on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:14PM (#21728003)

I'd assume so given that a large part of how IQ tests derive your score is based on how long it takes you.

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