Assessing reliability, heritability and general cognitive ability in a battery of cognitive tasks for laboratory mice

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 675-692

  Galsworthy, Michael J ^a,b   Paya Cano, Jose L ^a   Liu, Lin ^a   Monleón, Santiago ^c   Gregoryan, Gregory ^d   Fernandes, Cathy ^a   Schalkwyk, Leonard C ^a   Plomin, Robert ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; g; General cognitive ability; Heritability; HS mice; Individual differences; Siblings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 25144516616     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-005-3423-9     Document Type: Article

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