Biological and Psychological Correlates of Exceptional Performance in Development

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 999, Issue , 2003, Pages 451-460

  Oerter, Rolf ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deliberate practice; Expertise; Gene environment interaction; Genetic components of musical abilities

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GIFTED CHILD; HUMAN; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NEUROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0346938217     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1284.055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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