Is 'Grouping' Intelligence Possible?

[kings7]

I instinctively associate intelligence with understanding. Naturally intelligence may be used in different contexts, but "kinesthetic intelligence" is really stretching the usage of the term, in my opinion.

I would add also that the brain is an anticipation machine as much as a computer is a machine for carrying out arithmetic operations. In a sense, it may have been built with that purpose in mind, but it's much more than that.

Kinesthetic intelligence is an abuse of terminology. I know that you didn't make it up, but I wish people would stop using it. There is a part of intelligence that relates to reaction time, cognitive processing speed, and cognitive accuracy. These are more a part of the "kinesthetic intelligence" than the physical movement itself (which is, at its most basic level, not difficult. It only becomes difficult when conflated with complicated timing/processing variables).

Unfortunately, I'm in mathematics and music, not psychology, so no one takes me seriously :P. However, I think that a more useful model for kinesthetic intelligence would be something called 'chronometric intelligence'. If anyone is interested I can explain it in detail, but it basically just has to do with the ability to have a high processing speed, high accuracy, and a "good sense of timing/rhythm/sequence". (The phrase in quotes can be more specifically defined, but only at length which I will refrain from here). Chronometric intelligence applies to a lot of areas of life that people don't realizes (driving, cooking, ordering events correctly, making decisions under pressure, specialized occupations such as a being a pilot, reacting to unforeseen consequences, etc.).

 

[Math Is Hard]

Chronometric intelligence applies to a lot of areas of life that people don't realizes (driving, cooking, ordering events correctly, making decisions under pressure, specialized occupations such as a being a pilot, reacting to unforeseen consequences, etc.).

You could probably define that as procedural memory ability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_memory

 

[kings7]

You could probably define that as procedural memory ability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_memory

Good point.

The only thing is that it doesn't account for timing displacement, but the definition of procedural memory could surely be expanded to include this. All we need now are some new fMRI studies and peer-reviewed neuroscience classifications! ;)