{"647932":{"#nid":"647932","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Have you got a high EYE Q? People with large pupils are more intelligent, study finds ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBut only under the right lighting conditions, adds the authors of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0010027721000627#!\u0022\u003Estudy,\u003C\/a\u003E both from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E: professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/randall-w-engle\u0022\u003ERandall Engle\u003C\/a\u003E and graduate student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/graduate-students\/426\u0022\u003EJason Tsukahara\u003C\/a\u003E. They gave reasoning, memory, and attention tests to volunteers and\u0026nbsp;found that as well as being linked to arousal and exhaustion, pupil dilation can be used to understand the individual differences in intelligence, discovering that the larger the pupils, the higher the intelligence \u0026mdash; except in the brightest\u0026nbsp;lighting conditions.\u0026nbsp;The study says this\u0026nbsp;could be due to people with larger pupils having better results regulation of brain activity in a region linked to intelligence and memory. (Coverage of this study also appears in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-au\/news\/techandscience\/people-with-large-pupils-are-more-intelligent-study-finds\/ar-AAKHNE5\u0022\u003EMSN Australia\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-06-04 16:21:30","changed_gmt":"2021-06-04 16:26:56","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"leadership search","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-9652019\/Its-eyes-People-large-pupils-INTELLIGENT-study-finds.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"76091","name":"Randall Engle"},{"id":"187994","name":"Jason Tsukahara"},{"id":"187995","name":"pupil size"},{"id":"856","name":"Intelligence"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}