- Oxford Library of Psychology
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Introduction to the Handbook
- Perceptual Organization in Vision
- Object Recognition
- Face Recognition
- Eye Movements
- Event Perception
- Perception and Attention
- Spatial Attention
- Disorders of Attention
- The Nature and Status of Visual Resources
- Automaticity
- Unconscious Processes
- Episodic Memory
- Semantic Memory
- Implicit Memory
- The Sources of Memory Errors
- Through the SCAPE Looking Glass-Sources of Performance and Sources of Attribution
- Event-Based Prospective Remembering: An Integration of Prospective Memory and Cognitive Control Theories
- Metamemory
- Memory in Educational Settings
- The Nature of Mental Concepts
- Culture, Expertise, and Mental Categories
- Models of Categorization
- The Perceptual Representation of Mental Categories
- Mental Images
- Speech Perception
- Spoken Word Recognition
- Basic Processes in Reading
- Text Comprehension
- Discourse Comprehension
- Early Word Learning
- Relations Between Language and Thought
- The Evolution of Language
- Emotion Perception: Putting the Face in Context
- Emotion, Stress, and Memory
- Emotion–Cognition Interactions
- An Emotion Regulation Perspective on Belief Change
- Judgment Under Uncertainty
- Induction
- Reasoning
- The Mental Models Perspective
- Analogical Learning and Reasoning
- Decision Making
- Affective Forecasting and Well-Being
- Spatial Reasoning
- Causal Reasoning
- Moral Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Insight
- Creativity
- Contemporary Theories of Intelligence
- Genes and Intelligence
- Cognitive Style
- Planning and Performing Physical Actions
- The Psychology of Practice: Lessons From Spatial Cognition
- Experts and Their Superior Performance
- Self-Knowledge
- Person Perception
- Theory of Mind
- Attitude Change
- Cultural Differences and Their Mechanisms
- The Development of Cognitive Control From Infancy Through Childhood
- The Development of Attention
- Cognitive Aging
- Epilogue: Looking Forward
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Intelligence is a highly heritable complex trait. The proportion of variance in intelligence that is attributable to genetic factors ranges from 40% in young childhood to 80% in late adulthood. In the past decade, considerable progress has been made in molecular genetics technologies, which facilitates the detection of the actual genetic factors that underlie the high heritability of intelligence. In this chapter we provide an overview of the progress that has been made to date in identifying genetic variants for intelligence using various methods from genetic linkage to genome-wide association studies. In addition, we discuss a number of challenges to identify genetic variants associated with intelligence and provide suggestions for future directions.
Keywords: intelligence, IQ, cognition, heritability, linkage, association, gene, genome, pathway, SNP
Thais S. Rizzi, Section Functional Genomics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam (NCA), VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Danielle Posthuma, Sections Functional Genomics and Medical Genomics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam (NCA), Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University medical center (VUmc), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Introduction to the Handbook
- Perceptual Organization in Vision
- Object Recognition
- Face Recognition
- Eye Movements
- Event Perception
- Perception and Attention
- Spatial Attention
- Disorders of Attention
- The Nature and Status of Visual Resources
- Automaticity
- Unconscious Processes
- Episodic Memory
- Semantic Memory
- Implicit Memory
- The Sources of Memory Errors
- Through the SCAPE Looking Glass-Sources of Performance and Sources of Attribution
- Event-Based Prospective Remembering: An Integration of Prospective Memory and Cognitive Control Theories
- Metamemory
- Memory in Educational Settings
- The Nature of Mental Concepts
- Culture, Expertise, and Mental Categories
- Models of Categorization
- The Perceptual Representation of Mental Categories
- Mental Images
- Speech Perception
- Spoken Word Recognition
- Basic Processes in Reading
- Text Comprehension
- Discourse Comprehension
- Early Word Learning
- Relations Between Language and Thought
- The Evolution of Language
- Emotion Perception: Putting the Face in Context
- Emotion, Stress, and Memory
- Emotion–Cognition Interactions
- An Emotion Regulation Perspective on Belief Change
- Judgment Under Uncertainty
- Induction
- Reasoning
- The Mental Models Perspective
- Analogical Learning and Reasoning
- Decision Making
- Affective Forecasting and Well-Being
- Spatial Reasoning
- Causal Reasoning
- Moral Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Insight
- Creativity
- Contemporary Theories of Intelligence
- Genes and Intelligence
- Cognitive Style
- Planning and Performing Physical Actions
- The Psychology of Practice: Lessons From Spatial Cognition
- Experts and Their Superior Performance
- Self-Knowledge
- Person Perception
- Theory of Mind
- Attitude Change
- Cultural Differences and Their Mechanisms
- The Development of Cognitive Control From Infancy Through Childhood
- The Development of Attention
- Cognitive Aging
- Epilogue: Looking Forward
- Index
