Genetic and environmental influences on intraindividual variability in reaction time

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-35

  Finkel, Deborah ^a   McGue, Matt ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33845416147     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730601006222     Document Type: Article

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