Rising mean IQ: Cognitive demand of mathematics education for young children, population exposure to formal schooling, and the neurobiology of the prefrontal cortex

By Clancy Blair, David A. Gamson, S. Thorne, D. Baker. 2005

403 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Statistics and Probability

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. S. Wanless
2. Megan M. McClelland
3. R. P. Razza
4. Steinunn Gestsdottir
5. Antje von Suchodoletz
6. E. T. Rolls
7. Clancy Blair
8. Laura H. B. Dinehart

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Megan M. McClelland
2. S. Wanless
3. Antje von Suchodoletz
4. Clancy Blair
5. R. P. Razza
6. Steinunn Gestsdottir
7. Freyja Birgisdóttir
8. Catherine Gunzenhauser

In Statistics and Probability

1. Megan M. McClelland
2. S. Wanless
3. Clancy Blair
4. Antje von Suchodoletz
5. R. P. Razza
6. A. Diamond
7. Angela L. Duckworth
8. Camilla Gilmore

Citations in the corpus

• Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, Regulatory Challenges (2009, neutral): “…test scores by 2.5 IQ points per decade in most western countries, is attributable to increased demands of certain forms of abstract and visuospatial cognition in modern society and schooling, although improved nutrition and health status may also play a part (Neisser 1997; Blair et al. 2005).”
• Relating effortful control, executive function, and false belief understanding to emerging math and literacy ability in kindergarten. (2007, background): “…limited work has examined false belief understanding and its correlates in preschool children from low-income homes (Hughes & Ensor, 2005; Peters & Blair, 2003; Razza, 2005), a second aim of this study was to examine the relation of false belief understanding to effortful control and executive…”