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Trust brain scans to choose right career Psychometric Assessments Can Reveal Your 'Super Talents' London: Unable to make a career choice? Don't worry, now a brain scan method can help you select your ideal job, scientists claim.       Neuroscientists at the University of California are inching closer to a new brain-mapping method which they claim will help pinpoint a person's talents just by looking at the landscape of his or her mind.        The so-called "psychometric assessments" could also show how good you are with your hands and whether you have any "super talents".the Telegraph reports.        Professor Richard Haier, a psychologist who led the research, said the science remains vague but eventually it could be used to guide your career choice. "A person's pattern of cognitive strengths and weaknesses is related to their brain structure, so there is a possibility that brain scans could provide unique information that would be helpful for vocational choice." he said.       For the study, the researchers scanned the brains of more than 6,000 volunteers and compared the brain map with the results of battery of eight cognitive tests to see if there was a correlation between brain and aptitude.       They found the amount of grey matter, parts of the brain used for computations, and white matter, the part used for communication, and where they were positioned seemed to indicate how good you are at a number of tasks including arithmetic, learning and remembering facts and figures.           the parts of the brain at the root of inteligence are called Brodmann areas and they are scattered around the organ. Those with good speed of ressoning and memorey from the tests were found to have large amounts of grey matter - special tissue packed with nerve cells - in Brodmann areas.       In a further test, using MRI scans, the researchers correlated grey matter with independent ability factors-general intelligence, speed of reasoning, numerical, spatial, memory - and with individual test scored from a battery of cognitive tests completed by 40 ubduvudyaks seeking vocational guidance.       It was found that, In general, there were patterns of grey matter that correlated to actual ability and intelligence. The experts discovered that men and women although scoring the same results in IQ and other tests - had different brain make-ups which suggests that intelligence was not always linked to was not always linked to physical size of different parts of the mind.