Intelligence Tests

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Total plasma homocysteine, age, systolic blood pressure, and cognitive performance in older people.

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between total plasma homocysteine (tHcy) levels, blood pressure (BP) variables, renal function, and measures of cognitive performance in older people. DESIGN: Initial cross-sectional analysis of a prospective ...
Marc M Budge, Celeste de Jager, Eva Hogervorst, A David Smith, (J Am Geriatr Soc, 200212)
total-plasma-homocysteine-age-systolic-blood-pressure-cognitive.asp

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A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of language processing and its cognitive correlates in prematurely born children.

OBJECTIVE: Abnormalities in brain structure, cognition, and behavior have been described in children born prematurely. However, no direct in vivo evidence has yet demonstrated abnormal neural processing in these children. Our aim was to compare brain ...
Bradley S Peterson, Betty Vohr, Michael J Kane, Douglas H Whalen, Karen C Schneider, Karol H Katz, Heping Zhang, Charles C Duncan, Robert Makuch, John C Gore, Laura R Ment (Pediatrics, 200212)
functional-magnetic-resonance-imaging-study-language-processing.asp

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Methods of assessing neurobehavioral development in children exposed to methyl parathion in Mississippi and Ohio.

Methyl parathion (MP), an organophosphate pesticide, was sprayed illegally for pest control in U.S. residences and businesses in Mississippi and Ohio. To evaluate the association between MP exposure and neurobehavioral development, children 6 years of ...
Perri Zeitz, Kirsten Kakolewski, Rubina Imtiaz, Wendy Kaye (Environ Health Perspect, 200212)
methods-assessing-neurobehavioral-development-children-exposed-methyl.asp

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A study of intelligence in Estonia.

The Standard Progressive Matrices was standardised in Estonia in 2001 on a sample of 2,689 12- to 18-yr.-olds. The mean IQ of the Estonian sample was approximately 5 points higher than British IQ norms of 1979. Adjustment for the estimated secular ...
Richard Lynn, Jüri Allik, Helle Pullmann, Kaia Laidra (Psychol Rep, 200212)
study-intelligence-estonia.asp

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The Mozart effect may only be demonstrable in nonmusicians.

The "Mozart effect" is the tendency to score higher on spatiotemporal IQ subscales following exposure to complex music such as Mozarts Sonata K.448. This phenomenon was investigated in 20 musicians and 20 nonmusicians. The trion model predicts increased ...
A Twomey, A Esgate (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
mozart-effect-only-demonstrable-nonmusicians.asp

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Note on Kazlauskaite and Lynns paper on retest reliability of the Colored Progressive Matrices.

A reanalysis of the retest reliabilities for the Colored Progressive Matrices indicates Kazlauskaite and Lynns conclusions (2002) were not ...
Richard A Charter, Michael N Lopez (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
note-kazlauskaite-lynn-s-paper-retest-reliability-colored-progressive.asp

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North American Adult Reading Test: age norms, reliability, and validity.

The North American Adult Reading Test (NAART) is a quickly administered index that is widely used to estimate verbal intellectual ability. We have administered NAART to 351 healthy adults between 18 to 91 years of age to examine psychometric properties ...
Bob Uttl (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200212)
north-american-adult-reading-test-age-norms-reliability-validity.asp

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Longitudinal, 15-year follow-up of children born at less than 29 weeks gestation after introduction of surfactant therapy into a region: neurologic, cognitive, and educational outcomes.

OBJECTIVE: To measure the primary and secondary school-age neurologic, cognitive, and educational outcomes in a cohort of extremely premature infants born after the introduction of exogenous surfactant therapy in a circumscribed region. METHODS: Two ...
Carl T DAngio, Robert A Sinkin, Timothy P Stevens, Nancy K Landfish, Joan L Merzbach, Rita M Ryan, Dale L Phelps, Donna R Palumbo, Gary J Myers (Pediatrics, 200212)
longitudinal--year-follow-up-children-born-less-weeks-gestation.asp

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Relationship between fluid intelligence and ability to benefit from cognitive-behavioural therapy in older adults: a preliminary investigation.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the hypothesis that fluid intelligence in older adults is associated with the ability to benefit from cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), but unrelated to the ability to benefit ...
Elizabeth K Doubleday, Paul King, Costas Papageorgiou (Br J Clin Psychol, 200211)
relationship-fluid-intelligence-ability-benefit-cognitive-behavioural.asp

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Effects of social exclusion on cognitive processes: anticipated aloneness reduces intelligent thought.

Three studies examined the effects of randomly assigned messages of social exclusion. In all 3 studies, significant and large decrements in intelligent thought (including IQ and Graduate Record Examination test performance) were found among people told ...
Roy F Baumeister, Jean M Twenge, Christopher K Nuss (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200210)
effects-social-exclusion-cognitive-processes-anticipated-aloneness.asp