Integration Bandwidth: The Mechanism Behind Intelligence and Puberty

This publication notes a concordance of evidence across a variety of unrelated fields suggesting that the pace of biological maturation is tied directly to Fluid Intelligence in Humans. By identifying a plausible mechanism and extending the observations to their logical conclusions, a unifying model emerges. Although constructed independently, it was retroactively found to be in close alignment with the Turbulence model of cognition (Deco & Kringelbach, 2017) by providing a biological constraint for signal propagation and synchronization, and by implicating the thalamus as the source of consciousness and cognition. A search for counterexamples led to the discovery of a significant gap in Neuroscience relating to split-brained patients, and attempts to develop experiments to quantify their intelligence rigorously resulted in the creation of a potentially clinically valid Full Spectrum Cognitive Battery—capable of diagnosing any arbitrary cognitive shortfall and characterizing individuals by their level of Integration Bandwidth.