{"id":91645,"date":"2026-04-23T10:20:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/weak-brain-signals-may-matter-more-than-scientists-think\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:22:09","slug":"weak-brain-signals-may-matter-more-than-scientists-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/weak-brain-signals-may-matter-more-than-scientists-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak brain signals may matter more than scientists think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" end=\"false\">\n<p>This idea is not at all new. A <span data-citation-wrapper=\"\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/24585433\/\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/24585433\/\" data-citation-link=\"\">2014 study<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"2\">2<default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"11\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 11 10\"><default:path d=\"M10.5616 1.47255C10.7935 1.16327 10.7308 0.724508 10.4216 0.492549C10.1123 0.26059 9.67352 0.323271 9.44156 0.63255L4.41852 7.32996L2.03106 4.54448C1.77947 4.25094 1.33756 4.21694 1.04403 4.46853C0.750497 4.72012 0.716495 5.16203 0.968084 5.45556L3.77335 8.72851C3.81859 8.84955 3.89785 8.9595 4.0089 9.04279C4.09758 9.1093 4.19691 9.15159 4.29895 9.17078C4.51931 9.23643 4.76744 9.19227 4.955 9.03151C5.07764 8.92639 5.15498 8.78804 5.18511 8.64118L10.5616 1.47255Z\"\/><\/default:svg><\/a><\/span>    Something similar was found: differences in IQ were mostly explained by the efficiency of weaker, long-range brain connections, not stronger connections. Those pathways often connect areas such as the prefrontal cortex, the hippocampus, and the temporal lobe, suggesting that intelligence depends on widespread, distributed communication in the brain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This idea is not at all new. A 2014 study2 Something similar was found: differences in IQ were mostly explained by the efficiency of weaker, long-range brain connections, not stronger connections. Those pathways often connect areas such as the prefrontal cortex, the hippocampus, and the temporal lobe, suggesting that intelligence depends on widespread, distributed communication<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[964,1414,80,5607,2847],"class_list":["post-91645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scriptures","tag-brain","tag-matter","tag-scientists","tag-signals","tag-weak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91657,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91645\/revisions\/91657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}