Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "cognitive ability"

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    • Durable Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage on Verbal Ability among African-American Children 

      Sampson, Robert J.; Sharkey, Patrick; Raudenbush, Stephen W. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008)
      Disparities in verbal ability, a major predictor of later life outcomes, have generated widespread debate, but few studies have been able to isolate neighborhood-level causes in a developmentally and ecologically appropriate ...

    • Most Reported Genetic Associations with General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives 

      Laibson, David I.; Chabris, Christopher F.; Hebert, Benjamin Michael; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Beauchamp, Jonathan P.; Cesarini, David; van der Loos, Matthijs J. H. M.; Johannesson, Magnus; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Lichtenstein, Paul; Atwood, Craig S.; Freese, Jeremy; Hauser, Taissa S.; Hauser, Robert M.; Christakis, Nicholas Alexander (Sage, 2012)
      General intelligence (g) and virtually all other behavioral traits are heritable. Associations between g and specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in several candidate genes involved in brain function have been ...