This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the associations of personality and
intelligence. It presents a meta-analysis (N= 162,636, k= 272) of domain, facet, and item …

Heritability allows a comparison of the relative importance of genes and environment to the
variation of traits within and across populations. The concept of heritability and its definition …

People's differences in cognitive functions are partly heritable and are associated with
important life outcomes. Previous genome-wide association (GWA) studies of cognitive …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

Behavioral Genetics, Fifth Edition provides an engaging and clear overview of human and
animal behavioral genetics that is designed to introduce students in the behavioral …

Although most studies that examined associations between music training and cognitive
abilities had correlational designs, the prevailing bias is that music training causes …

Although common sense suggests that environmental influences increasingly account for
individual differences in behavior as experiences accumulate during the course of life, this …

Background Cognitive ageing is a major burden for society and a major influence in
lowering people's independence and quality of life. It is the most feared aspect of ageing …

Deposition of fat in the fetus increases exponentially with gestational age, reaching its
maximal rate—around 7 g/day or 90% of energy deposition—at term. In late pregnancy …

PURPOSE: Studies of middle-aged and particularly older-aged adults found that those with
higher scores on tests of IQ (cognitive function) had lower rates of later mortality …