Investigating cognitive transfer within the framework of music practice: Genetic pleiotropy rather than causality

Developmental Science

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 504-512

  Mosing, Miriam A ^a   Madison, Guy ^b   Pedersen, Nancy L ^a   Ullén, Fredrik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PLEIOTROPY; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTOR; TWINS;

ADULT; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSIC; TIME FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84962910412     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12306     Document Type: Article

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