Can cognitive abilities such as reasoning be improved through working memory training?
This question is still highly controversial, with prior studies providing contradictory findings …

Evolution of the prefrontal cortex was an essential precursor to civilization. During the past
decade, it became increasingly obvious that human prefrontal function is under substantial …

Recent psychological and neuropsychological research suggests that executive functions--
the cognitive control processes that regulate thought and action--are multifaceted and that …

The study of continuously varying, quantitative traits is important in evolutionary biology,
agriculture, and medicine. Variation in such traits is attributable to many, possibly interacting …

Предлагаемая читателю монография–одна из первых попыток систематизации
накопленной к настоящему времени информации в области молекулярной генетики …

Left–right asymmetrical brain function underlies much of human cognition, behavior and
emotion. Abnormalities of cerebral asymmetry are associated with schizophrenia and other …

Handedness refers to a consistent asymmetry in skill or preferential use between the hands
and is related to lateralization within the brain of other functions such as language. Previous …

White matter microstructure is under strong genetic control, yet it is largely unknown how
genetic influences change from childhood into adulthood. In one of the largest brain …

To identify common variants contributing to normal variation in two specific domains of
cognitive functioning, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of executive …

It has often been proposed that faster central nervous system (CNS) processing amounts to
a smarter brain. One way to index speed of CNS processing is through the assessment of …