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Maternal Working Memory and Reactive Negativity in Parenting by Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Sewell, Michael D., Petrill, Stephen A., Thompson, Lee A.

“…We examined the role of working memory in observed reactive parenting in a sample of 216 mothers and their same-sex twin children. The mothers and their…”
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Left posterior prefrontal regions support domain‐general executive processes needed for both reading and math by Wang, Kai, Banich, Marie T., Reineberg, Andrew E., Leopold, Daniel R., Willcutt, Erik G., Cutting, Laurie E., Del Tufo, Stephanie N., Thompson, Lee A., Opfer, John, Kanayet, Frank J., Lu, Zhong‐Lin, Petrill, Stephen A.

“…Substantial evidence has suggested that reading and math are supported by executive processes (EP). However, to date little is known about which portion of the…”
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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Decoding Skills - Implications for Music and Reading by Centanni, Tracy M, Anchan, D M, Beard, Maggie, Brooks, Renee, Thompson, Lee A, Petrill, Stephen A

“…Music education is associated with increased speech perception abilities and anecdotal evidence suggests musical training is also beneficial for performance in…”
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Longitudinal stability in reading comprehension is largely heritable from grades 1 to 6 by Soden, Brooke, Christopher, Micaela E, Hulslander, Jacqueline, Olson, Richard K, Cutting, Laurie, Keenan, Janice M, Thompson, Lee A, Wadsworth, Sally J, Willcutt, Erik G, Petrill, Stephen A

“…Reading comprehension is a foundational academic skill and significant attention has focused on reading development. This report is the first to examine the…”
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Characterizing and decomposing the neural correlates of individual differences in reading ability among adolescents with task-based fMRI by Wang, Kai, Leopold, Daniel R., Banich, Marie T., Reineberg, Andrew E., Willcutt, Erik G., Cutting, Laurie E., Del Tufo, Stephanie N., Thompson, Lee A., Opfer, John, Kanayet, Frank J., Lu, Zhong-Lin, Petrill, Stephen A.

“…To better characterize the neural correlates of the full spectrum of reading ability, this fMRI study examined how variations in reading ability correlate with…”
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Working memory training does not improve intelligence in healthy young adults by Chooi, Weng-Tink, Thompson, Lee A.

“…Jaeggi and her colleagues claimed that they were able to improve fluid intelligence by training working memory. Subjects who trained their working memory on a…”
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Etiological distinction of working memory components in relation to mathematics by Lukowski, Sarah L., Soden, Brooke, Hart, Sara A., Thompson, Lee A., Kovas, Yulia, Petrill, Stephen A.

“…Working memory has been consistently associated with mathematics achievement, although the etiology of these relations remains poorly understood. The present…”
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A Twin Study of the Genetics of High Cognitive Ability Selected from 11,000 Twin Pairs in Six Studies from Four Countries by Haworth, Claire M. A., Wright, Margaret J., Martin, Nicolas W., Martin, Nicholas G., Boomsma, Dorret I., Bartels, Meike, Posthuma, Danielle, Davis, Oliver S. P., Brant, Angela M., Corley, Robin P., Hewitt, John K., Iacono, William G., McGue, Matthew, Thompson, Lee A., Hart, Sara A., Petrill, Stephen A., Lubinski, David, Plomin, Robert

“…Although much genetic research has addressed normal variation in intelligence, little is known about the etiology of high cognitive abilities. Using data from…”
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Who is afraid of math? Two sources of genetic variance for mathematical anxiety by Wang, Zhe, Hart, Sara Ann, Kovas, Yulia, Lukowski, Sarah, Soden, Brooke, Thompson, Lee A., Plomin, Robert, McLoughlin, Grainne, Bartlett, Christopher W., Lyons, Ian M., Petrill, Stephen A.

“…Background Emerging work suggests that academic achievement may be influenced by the management of affect as well as through efficient information processing…”
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Is Math Anxiety Always Bad for Math Learning? The Role of Math Motivation by Wang, Zhe, Lukowski, Sarah L., Hart, Sara A., Lyons, Ian M., Thompson, Lee A., Kovas, Yulia, Mazzocco, Michèle M. M., Plomin, Robert, Petrill, Stephen A.

“…The linear relations between math anxiety and math cognition have been frequently studied. However, the relations between anxiety and performance on complex…”
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A comparison of methods for assessing performance on the number line estimation task by Gross, Susan I., Gross, Carol A., Kim, Dan, Lukowski, Sarah L., Thompson, Lee A., Petrill, Stephen A.

“…The debate about how to characterize performance on the number line estimation (NLE) task has yielded a diverse set of accuracy measures. These accuracy…”
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How relations between early reading skills and third-grade mathematics outcomes vary across distribution: A quantile regression approach by Zhu, Zhixin, Zuckerman, Astrid P, Shero, Jeffrey A, Willcutt, Erik G, Thompson, Lee A, Petrill, Stephen A

“…Early reading skills are critical for later academic outcomes, which include mathematics. Yet, these relations may vary by a child's ability level. This study…”
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The ABCs of Math: A Genetic Analysis of Mathematics and Its Links With Reading Ability and General Cognitive Ability by Hart, Sara A, Petrill, Stephen A, Thompson, Lee A, Plomin, Robert

“…The goal of this first major report from the Western Reserve Reading Project Math component is to explore the etiology of the relationship among…”
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Conduct problems, IQ, and household chaos: a longitudinal multi-informant study by Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Mullineaux, Paula Y., Beekman, Charles, Petrill, Stephen A., Schatschneider, Chris, Thompson, Lee A.

“…Background:  We tested the hypothesis that household chaos would be associated with lower child IQ and more child conduct problems concurrently and…”
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The Angular Gyrus as a Hub for Modulation of Language-related Cortex by Distinct Prefrontal Executive Control Regions by Kim, Hyojeong, Wang, Kai, Cutting, Laurie E, Willcutt, Erik G, Petrill, Stephen A, Leopold, Daniel R, Reineberg, Andrew E, Thompson, Lee A, Banich, Marie T

“…It has become clear in recent years that reading, while relying on domain-specific language processing regions, also involves regions that implement executive…”
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The Sternberg Triarchic Abilities Test (Level-H) is a Measure of g by Chooi, Weng-Tink, Long, Holly, Thompson, Lee

“…Although the consensus in the field of human intelligence holds that a unitary factor (g) accounts for the majority of the variance among individuals, there…”
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Development in reading and math in children from different SES backgrounds: the moderating role of child temperament by Wang, Zhe, Soden, Brooke, Deater‐Deckard, Kirby, Lukowski, Sarah L., Schenker, Victoria J., Willcutt, Erik G., Thompson, Lee A., Petrill, Stephen A.

“…Socioeconomic risks (SES risks) are robust risk factors influencing children's academic development. However, it is unclear whether the effects of SES on…”
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The Role of IQ in a Component Model of Reading by Tiu, Rolando D., Thompson, Lee A., Lewis, Barbara A.

“…The purpose of this study was to test the role of visual processing speed and IQ in a model of reading. This study investigated whether the processes involved…”
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Genetic and environmental influences on spatial reasoning: A meta-analysis of twin studies by King, Michael J., Katz, David P., Thompson, Lee A., Macnamara, Brooke N.

“…Behavioral genetic approaches, such as comparing monozygotic and dizygotic twins, are often used to evaluate the extent to which variations in human abilities…”
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Etiological Distinction Across Dimensions of Math Anxiety by Lukowski, Sarah L., DiTrapani, Jack, Rockwood, Nicholas J., Jeon, Minjeong, Thompson, Lee A., Petrill, Stephen A.

“…Analyses have suggested math anxiety is a multidimensional construct. However, previous behavioral genetic work examining math anxiety was unidimensional…”
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