Math Fluency Is Etiologically Distinct From Untimed Math Performance, Decoding Fluency, and Untimed Reading Performance: Evidence From a Twin Study

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 371-381

  Petrill, Stephen ^a   Logan, Jessica ^a   Hart, Sara ^b   Vincent, Pamela ^a   Thompson, Lee ^c   Kovas, Yulia ^d   Plomin, Robert ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

genetics; mathematics; reading

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DOMINANT GENE; DYSCALCULIA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; TWINS;

ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DISEASES IN TWINS; DYSCALCULIA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84862601234     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219411407926     Document Type: Article

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