[The theory of multiple intelligences: a suitable neurocognitive context for the neuropsychological hypotheses on the factors and mechanisms of superiority].
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this article is to relate two theories regarding the structure of the human mind. We suggest that the theory of multiple intelligences, a neurocognitive theory of the psychologist Howard Garnerd provides a suitable context for theoretical understanding and validation of the hypothesis of the pathology of superiority, a neuropsychological hypothesis formulated by the neuropsychologists Norman Geschwind and Albert Galaburda. Similarly, we show that, apart from being a context, the first theory enriches the second.


METHODS
We review the essential elements of both theories together with the arguments for them so that the reader may judge for himself. Similarly we review the factors determining intelligence; the association between neuropathology and intellectual dysfunction, general and specific, and the new directions in the understanding of human cognition.


CONCLUSIONS
We propose to consider the first theory as a fertile ambit and broad methodological framework for investigation in neuropsychology. This simultaneously shows the relevance of including neuropsychological investigation in broader cognitive and neuropsychological theories and models.
Sierra-Fitzgerald
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Universidad del Valle.Centro de Estudios Cerebrales. Facultad de Salud, Cali, Colombia. osierra@uniweb.net.co
Quevedo-Caicedo
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D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009484:Neuropsychology
La teoría de las inteligencias múltiples: contexto neurocognitivo adecuado para la hipótesis neuropsicológica sobre los factores y mecanismos de la superioridad.