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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
卷 29, 期 6, 页码 1095-1122出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00258-5
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intelligence; brain volume; MRI; head size; cognitive factors
The recent explosion of studies aimed at determining the biological basis of intelligence has revealed that cognitive ability has a strong biological substrate. This study expands on this literature by examining the relation between cognitive ability and MRI-measured brain volume and head size in a sample of adult male siblings recruited from the London, Ontario community in Canada. It was found that brain volume correlated with IQ at 0.35 (P ( 0.01), thus replicating the results of past studies. Corrections for restriction of range and attenuation in both this and past studies suggest that the population Value of the brain volume-IQ correlation is closer to 0.50. Head size variables, with one exception, also showed the expected positive correlations with IQ. The results of a vector analysis on factor scores indicated that the more highly g-loaded a test was the more highly it correlated with brain volume (r = 0.59, P < 0.01). The sum of the data suggested that although brain volume land to a lesser extent, head size) is predictive of g, fluid ability, and memory, it does not predict crystallized ability. Unexpectedly, the higher the spatial imaging loading of a test, the less its correlation with brain volume (vector correlation = -0.84, P < 0.001). (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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