Brain Scan Can Help Choosing a Career

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Aptitude tests, whether general or specific, and tests of mental ability is an important tool to guide choosing a vocational field. Now researchers from the University of California, United States, questioned whether the performance in these tests are based on differences in brain structure, and if so, brain scans can be very helpful in choosing a career?

As noted in the journal BMC Research Notes, researchers investigate how well the eight tests used in guiding choose vocational correlated with gray areas in the brain.

Research led by Richard Haier of the University of California, investigating the neurological basis for the performance of each test. He said, "Individual differences in cognitive abilities provide valuable information for vocational guidance."

He also admitted that there was some debate, such as whether the test results the special ability to help an individual more than the test results with the broader factors, such as general intelligence. "We compared the brain tissue were identified by using a cognitive ability test scores with those in the area identified by using specific cognitive test," he said. This comparison is to determine whether the approach is relatively broad and narrow to give the same results.

Using MRI, researchers look for correlations of gray areas in the brain by factors independent abilities (general intelligence, speed of reasoning, numerical, spatial, memory) and with test scores obtained from cognitive tests that were completed by 40 individuals seeking guidance in choosing vocational.

Talking about this result, Haier says, "The pattern of cognitive strengths and weaknesses of a person associated with the structure of their brains. As such, there is the possibility of a brain scan can provide unique information that will help to choose the vocational."


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