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People with a high IQ are considered to be smarter—but do they also have quirks in the way that their brains process information that gives them an advantage?
人们普遍认为高智商的人比较聪明——但是他们大脑处理信息的方式给他们带来优势的同时也会造成怪癖吗？
Well, recent research finds that when subjects in a study were asked to observe objects in motion, those with a high IQ automatically focused their attention more efficiently than people who score lower on IQ tests. The research is published in the journal Current Biology.
近来的研究发现，当受试者被要求观察运动的物体时，那些高智商的受试者能够自动集中注意力，且比那些智商得分低的受试者更高效。这项研究发表在《当代生物学》期刊上。
Participants watched video snippets of black vertical lines that took up a small section of the screen and that moved either to the left or right. The high IQ subjects spotted the direction of motion much faster than those with low IQ. Which is not a surprise.
参与者观察视频片段的黑色竖线，这些黑色竖线只占屏幕很小一部分，且竖线在向左或向右移动。高智商的受试者辨认出移动方向的速度比低智商的受试者更快。这并不让人感到吃惊。
But when the vertical lines took up much more of the screen those with a high IQ actually were slower to tell the direction of movement than the lower IQ subjects. The researchers think that this slowness actually represents a benefit of high intelligence—smarter people may automatically focus less well on large scenes that are likely to be background in favor of the perception of smaller details. Of course, if you're looking for someone really good at seeing moving black and white lines, ask a lion tracking a zebra.
但当竖线占据屏幕更多位置时，高智商的受试者在辨别移动方向时实际上比低智商者要慢。研究人员认为这种慢代表高智商的一个好处——聪明的人也许不太善于注意大规模场景或背景，这样就有利于感知更小的细节。当然，如果你在寻找十分善于观察移动的黑白相间的条纹的人时，那就去让狮子追赶斑马吧。
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