As a result of these benefits, children are thought to have increased physical well-being, with improved intellect, and are better able to attend school.
Either way, Bennett says, they return home with an improved intellect that "makes cocktail party banter all the much better".
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Brain cells can improve intellect only if they join the existing neural network, and many do not, instead rattling aimlessly around in the brain for a while before dying.
Taylor suggested that the reasons that reading was significant could be that it improved the intellect of students, or that employers felt more comfortable taking on someone with a similarly educated background.
Nick Bostrom, an Oxford philosopher best known for his 2014 book Superintelligence, which raised alarms about the risks of artificial intelligence in computers, has also looked at whether humans could use reproductive technology to improve human intellect.
Yet these diminutive rolls of pastel-colored wafers, which for years children have eaten in the hopes, perhaps, of improving their intellect, may turn out to be smart treats after all, at least for some allergen-sensitive families.
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In the meantime, the message for children, parents and teachers is, as Ramsden writes in Nature, Ramsden says: "This [study is] encouraging to some whose intellect may improve, and a warning that early achievers may not maintain potential".
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