Intelligence

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Apolipoprotein E and intellectual achievement.

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether apolipoprotein E (apo E) genotype influences intellectual achievement in cognitively normal individuals. DESIGN: Between 1994 and 1999 we performed apo E testing on 1,000 self-described cognitively normal residents of ...
Richard J Caselli, Joseph G Hentz, David Osborne, Neill R Graff-Radford, Carolyn J Barbieri, Gene E Alexander, Geri R Hall, Eric M Reiman, John Hardy, Ann M Saunders (J Am Geriatr Soc, 200201)
apolipoprotein-e-intellectual-achievement.asp

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Effects of spelling errors on the perception of writers.

The authors investigated the perceived relationship between spelling errors and cognitive abilities in a series of 3 experiments. Specifically, they examined whether college students ratings of an authors intellectual ability, logical ability, and ...
David S Kreiner, Summer D Schnakenberg, Angela G Green, Michael J Costello, Anis F McClin (J Gen Psychol, 200201)
effects-spelling-errors-perception-writers.asp

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The brain-machine disanalogy revisited.

Michael Conrad was a pioneer in investigating biological information processing. He believed that there are fundamental lessons to be learned from the structure and behavior of biological brains that we are far from understanding or have implemented in ...
Bernard P Zeigler (Biosystems, 200201)
brain-machine-disanalogy-revisited.asp

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Motivation to serve in the military influences vulnerability to future posttraumatic stress disorder.

High motivation and belief in a cause have been reported to be protective against posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), while below-average intellectual functioning and poor educational achievements have been reported to increase vulnerability to PTSD. ...
Zeev Kaplan, Mark Weiser, Abraham Reichenberg, Jonathan Rabinowitz, Asaf Caspi, Ehud Bodner, Joseph Zohar (Psychiatry Res, 200201)
motivation-serve-military-influences-vulnerability-future.asp

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Understanding the nature of the general factor of intelligence: the role of individual differences in neural plasticity as an explanatory mechanism.

The nature of the general factor of intelligence, or g, is examined. This article begins by observing that the finding of a general factor of intelligence appears to be inconsistent with current findings in neuroscience and cognitive science, where ...
Dennis Garlick (Psychol Rev, 200201)
understanding-nature-general-factor-intelligence-role-individual.asp

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Assessment of neuropsychological function through use of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery: performance in 4- to 12-year-old children.

In this article, childrens performance on subtasks from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery (CANTAB) is described. Two samples were recruited, one of which included children who spoke English as a second language. Children in this ...
Monica Luciana, Charles A Nelson (Dev Neuropsychol, 2002)
assessment-neuropsychological-function-cambridge-neuropsychological.asp

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Low birthweight children: coping in school?

AIM: To describe and compare school performance and IQ at 11 y of age in a population of 130 children weighing less than 2000 g at birth without any major handicaps (low birthweight) and a random control sample of 131 children born at term weighing over ...
I Elgen, K Sommerfelt (Acta Paediatr, 2002)
low-birthweight-children-coping-school.asp

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Evolution of human intelligence: the roles of brain size and mental construction.

Two competing philosophical paradigms characterize approaches to the evolution of the human mind. One postulates continuity between animal and human behavioral capacities. The other assumes that humans and animals are separated by major qualitative ...
Kathleen R Gibson (Brain Behav Evol, 2002)
evolution-human-intelligence-roles-brain-size-mental-construction.asp

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Effect of breastfeeding on cognitive development of infants born small for gestational age.

Breastfeeding during infancy appears to result in enhanced cognitive development during childhood, but it is not known whether breastfeeding should be encouraged for infants born small for gestational age (SGA) whose growth might otherwise benefit from ...
M R Rao, M L Hediger, R J Levine, A B Naficy, T Vik (Acta Paediatr, 2002)
effect-breastfeeding-cognitive-development-infants-born-small.asp

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Performance on tests of frontal lobe function reflect general intellectual ability.

Recent studies have indicated that performance on tests of frontal lobe function are highly associated with general intellectual ability (g). Some authors have even claimed that the available evidence does not support a more specific account of frontal ...
M C Obonsawin, J R Crawford, J Page, P Chalmers, R Cochrane, G Low (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
performance-tests-frontal-lobe-function-reflect-general-intellectual.asp