Education and cognitive functioning across the life span

M Lövdén, L Fratiglioni, MM Glymour… - … science in the …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive abilities are important predictors of educational and occupational performance,
socioeconomic attainment, health, and longevity. Declines in cognitive abilities are linked to …

Cognitive aging and dementia: a life-span perspective

EM Tucker-Drob - Annual review of developmental psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
This review summarizes empirical findings and theoretical concepts in cognitive aging and
late-life dementia research, with emphases on (a) person-to-person heterogeneity in …

The Tsimane health and life history project: integrating anthropology and biomedicine

M Gurven, J Stieglitz, B Trumble… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tsimane Health and Life History Project, an integrated bio‐behavioral study of
the human life course, is designed to test competing hypotheses of human life‐history …

Broadening horizons: Sample diversity and socioecological theory are essential to the future of psychological science

MD Gurven - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The present lack of sample diversity and ecological theory in psychological science
fundamentally limits generalizability and obstructs scientific progress. A focus on the role of …

[HTML][HTML] Spearman'sg found in 31 non-Western nations: Strong evidence that g is a universal phenomenon.

RT Warne, C Burningham - Psychological Bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Spearman's g is the name for the shared variance across a set of intercorrelating cognitive
tasks. For some—but not all—theorists, g is defined as general intelligence. While g is …

Diverse mathematical knowledge among indigenous Amazonians

DM O'Shaughnessy, T Cruz Cordero… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We investigate number and arithmetic learning among a Bolivian indigenous people, the
Tsimane', for whom formal schooling is comparatively recent in history and variable in both …

The development of cumulative cultural learning

CH Legare - Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Human culture is unique among animals in its complexity, variability, and cumulative quality.
This article describes the development and diversity of cumulative cultural learning. Children …

[HTML][HTML] Apolipoprotein E4 is associated with improved cognitive function in Amazonian forager-horticulturalists with a high parasite burden

BC Trumble, J Stieglitz, AD Blackwell… - The FASEB …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The apolipoprotein E4 (E4) allele is present worldwide, despite its associations with higher
risk of cardiovascular morbidity, accelerated cognitive decline during aging, and Alzheimer's …

Prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in indigenous Bolivian forager‐horticulturalists

M Gatz, WJ Mack, HC Chui, EM Law… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction We evaluated the prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
in indigenous Tsimane and Moseten, who lead a subsistence lifestyle. Methods Participants …

Accounting for the shared environment in cognitive abilities and academic achievement with measured socioecological contexts

LE Engelhardt, JA Church… - Developmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioral and molecular genetic research has established that child cognitive ability and
academic performance are substantially heritable, but genetic variation does not account for …