Kovas, Yulia. 2007. The origins of diverse domains of mathematics: Generalist genes but specialist environments. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(5), pp. 198-203. [Article]

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The authors assessed 2,502 ten-year-old children, members of 1,251 pairs of twins, on a Web-based battery of problems from 5 diverse aspects of mathematics assessed as part of the U.K. national curriculum. This 1st genetic study into the etiology of variation in different domains of mathematics showed that the heritability estimates were moderate and highly similar across domains and that these genetic influences were mostly general. Environmental factors unique to each twin in a family (rather than shared by the 2 twins) explained most of the remaining variance, and these factors were mostly specific to each domain.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.001
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 2007 Published
Item ID:	3222
Date Deposited:	24 Jun 2010 08:36
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2017 09:25
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/3222

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