Heritability of Stroop and flanker performance in 12-year old children

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Stins, John F ^a   van Baal, G Caroline M ^a   Polderman, Tinca J C ^a,b   Verhulst, Frank C ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FLANKER TEST; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERFORMANCE; PHENOTYPE; REACTION TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; STROOP TASK; ATTENTION; BIRTH ORDER; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENETICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TWINS;

ATTENTION; BIRTH ORDER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TWINS;

EID: 12944295052     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-5-49     Document Type: Article

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