Someone who suffers localized brain damage may lose certain cognitive abilities while retaining functions in other cognitive domains. This supports Gardner's contention that
A) people have multiple intelligences.
B) intelligence is a unified cognitive entity.
C) some intelligences are determined by biological factors, while other intelligences are determined by environmental factors.
D) there are three types of intelligence, supporting his triarchic theory of intelligence.

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Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences posits that individuals have different types of intelligence that are relatively independent from one another. This means that a person can have strong abilities in one domain (e.g. linguistic intelligence) while being weaker in another (e.g. spatial intelligence). The fact that localized brain damage can selectively impair certain cognitive functions while leaving others intact suggests that different cognitive abilities are indeed relatively independent.

Someone Who Suffers Localized Brain Damage May Lose Certain Cognitive