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Genetic and environmental covariation between verbal and nonverbal cognitive development in infancy.
Child development - 1 Jan 2000
Price T S, Eley T C, Dale P S, Stevenson J, Saudino K, Plomin R
Abstract excerpt
Despite cognitive neuroscience's emphasis on the modularity of cognitive processes, multivariate genetic research indicates that the same genetic factors largely affect diverse cognitive abilities, at least from middle childhood onward. We explored this issue for verbal and nonverbal cognitive development in infancy in a study of 1,937 pairs of same-sex 2-year-old twins born in England and Wales in 1994. The...
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