Strategies may mediate heritable aspects of memory performance: A twin study

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 224-230

  Nandagopal, Kiruthiga ^a   Roring, Roy W ^a   Ericsson, Karl Anders ^a   Taylor, Jeanette ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive abilities; Heritability; memory; metacognition; strategies; twin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650830585     PISSN: 15433633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e3181e07d29     Document Type: Article

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