Brain size does not predict general cognitive ability within families

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 4932-4937

  Schoenemann, P Thomas ^a   Budinger, Thomas F ^b   Sarich, Vincent M ^c   Wang, William S Y ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 0034712940     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.9.4932     Document Type: Article

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