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Exploring interactive effects of genes and environments in etiology of individual differences in reading comprehension.
Development and psychopathology - 1 Jan 2007
Grigorenko Elena L, Deyoung Colin G, Getchell Marya, Haeffel Gerald J, Klinteberg Britt A F, Koposov Roman A, Oreland Lars, Pakstis Andrew J, Ruchkin Vladislav V, Yrigollen Carolyn M
Abstract excerpt
It is established that reading and reading-related processes are heritable; genes thus play an important role in the foundation of individual differences in reading. In this article, we focus on one facet of reading-comprehension. Comprehension is a higher order cognitive skill that requires many other cognitive processes for it to unfold completely and successfully. One such process is executive functioning,...
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