Individual differences in dynamic measures of verbal learning abilities in young twin pairs and their older siblings

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 440-444

  van Soelen, Inge L C ^a,b   van den Berg, Stéphanie M ^c   Dekker, Peter H ^a   van Leeuwen, Marieke ^a   Peper, Jiska S ^d   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AVLT; Heritability; Twin studies; Verbal learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350003862     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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