Executive function (EF) underpins the ability to set goals and work towards those goals by co-
ordinating thought and action. Its emergence during the first 3 years of life is under-studied …

Musical training has recently gained additional interest in education as increasing
neuroscientific research demonstrates its positive effects on brain development …

Simple reaction time (SRT), the minimal time needed to respond to a stimulus, is a basic
measure of processing speed. SRTs were first measured by Francis Galton in the 19th …

The presence of general intelligence poses a major evolutionary puzzle, which has led to
increased interest in its presence in nonhuman animals. The aim of this review is to critically …

To better understand how network structure shapes intelligent behavior, we developed a
learning algorithm that we used to build personalized brain network models for 650 Human …

Why are some people more skilled in complex domains than other people? Here, we
conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the relationship between cognitive ability and skill in …

Cognitive processing slows with age. We sought to determine the importance of white matter
integrity, assessed by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), at influencing cognitive processing …

The effects of aging and IQ on performance were examined in three two-choice tasks:
numerosity discrimination, recognition memory, and lexical decision. The experimental data …

Psychological science has long been cleaved by a fundamental divide between researchers
who experimentally manipulate variables and those who measure existing individual …

This well-established and accessible text has been completely revised in this expanded fifth
edition. Each chapter has been updated, often extensively, to reflect current thinking, and an …