作者
Jeremy B Wilmer, Laura Germine, Christopher F Chabris, Garga Chatterjee, Mark Williams, Eric Loken, Ken Nakayama, Bradley Duchaine
发表日期
2010/3/16
期刊
Proceedings of the National Academy of sciences
卷号
107
期号
11
页码范围
5238-5241
出版商
National Academy of Sciences
简介
Compared with notable successes in the genetics of basic sensory transduction, progress on the genetics of higher level perception and cognition has been limited. We propose that investigating specific cognitive abilities with well-defined neural substrates, such as face recognition, may yield additional insights. In a twin study of face recognition, we found that the correlation of scores between monozygotic twins (0.70) was more than double the dizygotic twin correlation (0.29), evidence for a high genetic contribution to face recognition ability. Low correlations between face recognition scores and visual and verbal recognition scores indicate that both face recognition ability itself and its genetic basis are largely attributable to face-specific mechanisms. The present results therefore identify an unusual phenomenon: a highly specific cognitive ability that is highly heritable. Our results establish a clear genetic basis for …
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