Editors:
- Lifespan perspective that acknowledges the accumulating impact of genetic and environmental influences
- Inclusion of research on both normative and non-normative cognitive functioning
- Input from related fields of physiology and animal behavior that elucidates current research and points to possible future research directions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Behavior Genetics (AIBG, volume 1)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biology and Neurobiology
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The intent is to provide a state-of-the-field look at the behavioral genetics of cognition in a much more advanced and fine-tuned manner across the lifespan in normal and abnormal cases. This book is intended for anyone interested in genetics, cognition, and development. This could include cognitive neuroscientists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, developmental psychologists, and others. … For readers interested in behavioral genetics and cognitive function, this book provides a cogent, current review of the literature … .” (Christopher J. Graver, Doody’s Book Reviews, May, 2014)
“The book is a useful starting point for students and researchers unfamiliar with the field and a valuable resource for scholars of human development, aging and cognition. It covers normal range cognition as well as intellectual disabilities in childhood and dementing disorders in later age. … This book provides an excellent summary of how far we have come and how far is left to go.” (Carol A. Prescott, Behavior Genetics, Vol. 44, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Social Sciences, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA
Deborah Finkel
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University of California at Riverside, Riverside, USA
Chandra A. Reynolds
About the editors
Deborah Finkel is a Professor of Psychology at Indiana University Southeast. Her research interests include applying the methods of behavioral genetics to investigations of cognitive aging and biological markers of the aging process and the methods of longitudinal analysis to twin data to investigate genetic and environmental influences on longitudinal change. She was named a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America in 2002.
Chandra A. Reynolds is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of California Riverside. Her research interests focus on the interrelationships between health and cognition across development. She directs projects that consider the etiology of cognitive change and decline, including biological and candidate gene markers and their possible interaction with social-environmental factors. Other projects include examinations of early-life influences on longitudinal change in health, well-being, and cognition as well as longevity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Behavior Genetics of Cognition Across the Lifespan
Editors: Deborah Finkel, Chandra A. Reynolds
Series Title: Advances in Behavior Genetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7447-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-7446-3Published: 10 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0239-2Published: 05 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-7447-0Published: 09 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2698-3834
Series E-ISSN: 2698-3842
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 300
Topics: Psychology Research, Human Genetics, Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, Neurosciences
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