Most psychologists and neuroscientists agree that there are different kinds of human intelligence—emotional, analytic, spatial, creative, practical, to name a few. But they still debate about whether the types are independent or correlated. In his theory of “multiple intelligences,” Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner identifies eight different types of intelligence and suggests that they’re independent. They are bodily, linguistic, musical, mathematical or logical, naturalistic (sensitivity to the natural world), spatial (knowing where you are relative to a fixed location), interpersonal
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