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Brain development and IQ

Richard Passingham ()
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Richard Passingham: University of Oxford

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7084, 619-620

Abstract: If intelligence is partly determined by our genes, how does brain development relate to IQ? An attempt to answer this question measures the size of the outer layer of the brain, the cortex, with surprising results.

Date: 2006
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