{"648220":{"#nid":"648220","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why People With Bigger Pupils Are Smarter","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe eyes are the mirror of the soul, and the pupils could be the mirror of the intelligence, according to a recent scientific \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0010027721000627#!\u0022\u003Estudy.\u003C\/a\u003E Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds a correlation between the basal size of the pupils and the degree of intelligence of a person. According to the researchers, the size of this part of the eye is directly related to a part of the brain called the locus ceruleus. The researchers, from the School of Psychology, are Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/randall-w-engle\u0022\u003ERandall Engle\u003C\/a\u003E, and graduate student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/englelab.gatech.edu\/jason\u0022\u003EJason Tsukahara\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-06-18 16:03:50","changed_gmt":"2021-06-18 16:03:50","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Bike Challenge","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.explica.co\/why-people-with-bigger-pupils-are-smarter-life.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"76091","name":"Randall Engle"},{"id":"187994","name":"Jason Tsukahara"},{"id":"188113","name":"eyes"},{"id":"188114","name":"pupils"},{"id":"187995","name":"pupil size"},{"id":"856","name":"Intelligence"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}