Genetic and environmental influences on analogical and categorical verbal and spatial reasoning in 12-year old twins

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 722-731

  Mosing, Miriam A ^a   Mellanby, Jane ^a,b   Martin, Nicholas G ^a   Wright, Margaret J ^a,c  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abstract reasoning; Fluid intelligence; Genetic influences; Heritability; Twin study; VESPARCH 1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL REASONING; THINKING; VERBAL REASONING; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

CHILD; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84866526449     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-012-9540-3     Document Type: Article

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