Heritability of cognitive abilities as measured by mental chronometric tasks: A meta-analysis

Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-201

  Beaujean, A Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronometric tasks; Cognitive abilities; Heritability

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 13244264854     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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