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Persistent Genetic and Family-Wide Environmental Contributions to Early Number Knowledge and Later Achievement in Mathematics.
Psychological science - 1 Dec 2017
Garon-Carrier Gabrielle, Boivin Michel, Kovas Yulia, Feng Bei, Brendgen Mara, Vitaro Frank, Séguin Jean R, Tremblay Richard E, Dionne Ginette
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This study investigated the stable and transient genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in number knowledge in the transition from preschool (age 5) to Grade 1 (age 7) and to the predictive association between early number knowledge and later math achievement (age 10-12). We conducted genetic simplex modeling across these three time points. Genetic variance was transmitted from...
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