Looking Back to Predict the Future: Toward a New Generation of Intelligence Research

Dear Colleagues,

The Journal of Intelligence is celebrating: Its inaugural issue was released in 2013, and it was devoted to a discussion around two questions:

• What are the most important scientific issues in the domain of human intelligence?
• What are the most promising new ideas and approaches in the study of human intelligence?

Members of the editorial board at that time sent their answers to these questions (see first-round contributions: Intelligence, Where to Look, Where to Go?) and commented on the submitted views of their peers (see second-round contributions). Ten years ago, there was agreement that the neural substrate and processes are important and promising to investigate and that the measurement of intelligence needs to be improved. Furthermore, several of the listed most promising and innovative ideas and approaches in the study of human intelligence implied that more attention should be given to cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding the fundaments and development of intelligence, its nature in terms of structure and processes, and its correlates and consequences. To name a few of these proposals for new and promising ideas in intelligence research proposed 10 years ago:

• Effects of pharmaceutical interventions and cognitive enhancers;
• Influence of the environment and lifestyle on cognition;
• Longitudinal studies to better understand the development of intelligence;
• Big data approaches for improved measurement, including automatized item generation;
• Artificial intelligence.

Anniversaries are inspiring retrospective events. We invite the members of the current editorial board to embrace this opportunity and look back to predict the future. How did Journal of Intelligence contribute to achieving the above innovative ideas? Has the field, in general, made progress concerning these innovations? Can we outline a next generation of intelligence research to be published in Journal of Intelligence?

Prof. Dr. Matthias Ziegler
Prof. Dr. Andrea Hildebrandt
Prof. Dr. Gizem Hülür
Prof. Dr. Andrew Conway
Guest Editors

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• Intelligence, Where to Look, Where to Go? in Journal of Intelligence (15 articles)