Amultidisciplinary collaborative study examining cognition in a large sample of twins is
outlined. A common experimental protocol and design is used in The Netherlands, Australia …

Individual differences in intelligence (cognitive abilities) are a prominent aspect of human
psychology, and play a substantial role in influencing important life outcomes. Their …

Introduction It is commonly believed that psychic ability, like many mental and physical traits,
runs in families. This suggests the presence of a genetic component. If such a component …

Educational attainment is strongly influenced by social and other environmental factors, but
genetic factors are estimated to account for at least 20% of the variation across individuals 1 …

The hypothesis of the present paper is that cognitive abilities have undergone recent
positive selection in human populations. Executive function is a multifactorial, polygenic …

Neuroscience is in fashion. People at dinner parties talk about creative brains, language
and spatial hemispheres, brain training and brain areas for this and that. It is likely that much …

Very different neurocognitive processes appear to be involved in cognitive abilities such as
verbal and non-verbal ability as compared to learning abilities taught in schools such as …

The complex nature of human cognition has resulted in cognitive genomics lagging behind
many other fields in terms of gene discovery using genome-wide association study (GWAS) …

Along with psychopathology, cognition has been one of the primary phenotypic focal points
of the field of behavior genetics since its inception (Plomin et al. 2012). Darwin (1871) …