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- PhD Psychology Goldsmiths, University of London
- Masters Psychology Goldsmiths, University of London
- Bachelors Psychology Goldsmiths, University of London
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yulia Kovas is a geneticist and psychologist - currently a Professor of Genetics and Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London , and a visiting professor at UCL, King’s College, Sussex and New York Universities - in the United Kingdom. She received the British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology in 2012. Kovas is the director of InLab at Goldsmiths. She leads the genetically-informative research into individual differences in mathematical ability and achievement as part of the Twins Early Development Study at King’s College, London.
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- The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood (2010) (546)
- Generalist genes and learning disabilities. (2005) (498)
- True grit and genetics: Predicting academic achievement from personality. (2016) (278)
- The high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence (2014) (266)
- The Genetic and Environmental Origins of Learning Abilities and Disabilities in the Early School Years (2013) (229)
- Generalist genes: implications for the cognitive sciences (2006) (227)
- Who is afraid of math? Two sources of genetic variance for mathematical anxiety. (2014) (149)
- Is Math Anxiety Always Bad for Math Learning? The Role of Math Motivation (2015) (144)
- Understanding Neurocognitive Developmental Disorders Can Improve Education for All (2013) (142)
- Intrinsic Motivation and Achievement in Mathematics in Elementary School: A Longitudinal Investigation of Their Association. (2016) (125)
- Genetic influences in different aspects of language development: the etiology of language skills in 4.5-year-old twins. (2005) (120)
- Erratum: Predicting educational achievement from DNA (2017) (106)
- A genome-wide association study identifies multiple loci associated with mathematics ability and disability (2010) (105)
- Internet Cognitive Testing of Large Samples Needed in Genetic Research (2007) (104)
- 'Generalist genes' and mathematics in 7-year-old twins. (2005) (97)
- Overlap and specificity of genetic and environmental influences on mathematics and reading disability in 10-year-old twins. (2007) (96)
- Why do spatial abilities predict mathematical performance? (2014) (92)
- A Twin Study of Teacher-Reported Mathematics Performance and Low Performance in 7-Year-Olds. (2004) (91)
- The correlation between reading and mathematics ability at age twelve has a substantial genetic component (2014) (87)
- Learning Abilities and Disabilities: Generalist Genes, Specialist Environments (2007) (82)
- New literacy challenge for the twenty-first century: genetic knowledge is poor even among well educated (2018) (81)
- Generalist genes and learning disabilities: a multivariate genetic analysis of low performance in reading, mathematics, language and general cognitive ability in a sample of 8000 12-year-old twins. (2009) (80)
- Literacy and Numeracy Are More Heritable Than Intelligence in Primary School (2013) (77)
- Why children differ in motivation to learn: Insights from over 13,000 twins from 6 countries (2015) (76)
- More Than Just IQ (2009) (76)
- Mathematical Ability of 10-Year-Old Boys and Girls (2007) (75)
- Generalist Genes: Genetic Links Between Brain, Mind, and Education (2007) (70)
- Predicting educational achievement from DNA (2016) (67)
- Cross-cultural investigation into cognitive underpinnings of individual differences in early arithmetic. (2015) (62)
- Math Fluency Is Etiologically Distinct From Untimed Math Performance, Decoding Fluency, and Untimed Reading Performance (2012) (61)
- Common aetiology for diverse language skills in 41/2-year-old twins (2006) (60)
- Pleiotropy across academic subjects at the end of compulsory education (2015) (58)
- Epidemiology and symptomatology of depression in Sri Lanka: A cross-sectional population-based survey in Colombo District (2010) (58)
- Evidence for shared genetic risk between ADHD symptoms and reduced mathematics ability: a twin study. (2014) (57)
- A latent profile analysis of math achievement, numerosity, and math anxiety in twins. (2016) (54)
- Mathematics is differentially related to reading comprehension and word decoding: Evidence from a genetically-sensitive design. (2012) (53)
- Differences in exam performance between pupils attending selective and non-selective schools mirror the genetic differences between them (2018) (51)
- From classroom environment to mathematics achievement: The mediating role of self-perceived ability and subject interest (2016) (51)
- The genetic and environmental aetiology of spatial, mathematics and general anxiety (2017) (50)
- Why do we differ in number sense? Evidence from a genetically sensitive investigation☆ (2014) (49)
- The etiology of mathematical self-evaluation and mathematics achievement: understanding the relationship using a cross-lagged twin study from age 9 to 12. (2011) (48)
- Generalist genes and the Internet generation: etiology of learning abilities by web testing at age 10 (2008) (46)
- Developmental Origins of Low Mathematics Performance and Normal Variation in Twins from 7 to 9 Years (2007) (44)
- The genetic and environmental origins of learning abilities and disabilities in the early school years: V. Genetic stability, environmental change. (2007) (39)
- The Origins of Diverse Domains of Mathematics: Generalist Genes but Specialist Environments. (2007) (38)
- Reading Self-Perceived Ability, Enjoyment and Achievement: A Genetically Informative Study of Their Reciprocal Links Over Time (2017) (38)
- Longitudinal associations between narcissism, mental toughness and school achievement (2018) (37)
- Brain Correlates of Non-Symbolic Numerosity Estimation in Low and High Mathematical Ability Children (2009) (36)
- Sex differences in non-verbal and verbal abilities in childhood and adolescence (2017) (36)
- Number Sense and Mathematics: Which, When and How? (2017) (34)
- Genetics affects choice of academic subjects as well as achievement (2016) (34)
- Gene-Environment Interaction in the Etiology of Mathematical Ability Using SNP Sets (2010) (33)
- Early developmental trajectories of number knowledge and math achievement from 4 to 10 years: Low-persistent profile and early-life predictors. (2018) (32)
- Phenotypic and genetic evidence for a unifactorial structure of spatial abilities (2017) (31)
- Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (CoTASS): A description of a population based twin study of mental disorders in Sri Lanka (2008) (31)
- The Genetic and Environmental Etiology of High Math Performance in 10-Year-Old Twins (2009) (28)
- Science in elementary school: Generalist genes and school environments (2008) (25)
- Cognitive and regulatory characteristics and mathematical performance in high school students (2016) (24)
- Genetic and environmental contributions to depression in Sri Lanka (2009) (22)
- GENES AND GINI: WHAT INEQUALITY MEANS FOR HERITABILITY (2018) (22)
- Generalist genes analysis of DNA markers associated with mathematical ability and disability reveals shared influence across ages and abilities (2010) (22)
- Prenatal testosterone does not explain sex differences in spatial ability (2018) (22)
- Genetic and Environmental Contributions to the Overlap Between Psychological, Fatigue and Somatic Symptoms: A Twin Study in Sri Lanka (2011) (21)
- Aetiology of fatigue in Sri Lanka and its overlap with depression (2010) (19)
- What Can the Study of Genetics Offer to Educators (2015) (17)
- Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence (2019) (17)
- Development and Validation of a Mathematics-number sense Web-based Test Battery ☆ (2013) (16)
- Behavioural Genetics for Education (2016) (16)
- Predicting maths anxiety from mathematical achievement across the transition from primary to secondary education (2019) (16)
- Development and Validation of a Mathematics-number sense Web-based Test Battery ☆ (2013) (16)
- Genetic Literacy and Attitudes Survey (iGLAS): International Population-Wide Assessment Instrument (2017) (16)
- Development and Validation of a Mathematics-number sense Web-based Test Battery ☆ (2013) (16)
- Personality, Behavioral strengths and difficulties and performance of adolescents with high achievements in science, literature, art and sports (2020) (15)
- Hair Trace Element and Electrolyte Content in Women with Natural and In Vitro Fertilization-Induced Pregnancy (2017) (14)
- The Genetic and Environmental Origins of Learning Abilities and Disabilities in the Early School (2007) (14)
- Mindfulness and associations with symptoms of insomnia, anxiety and depression in early adulthood: A twin and sibling study. (2019) (14)
- Genetic factors underlie the association between anxiety, attitudes and performance in mathematics (2019) (14)
- Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence (2020) (13)
- Cognition, emotion, and arithmetic in primary school: A cross‐cultural investigation (2018) (13)
- Ordinary extraordinary: Elusive group differences in personality and psychological difficulties between STEM‐gifted adolescents and their peers (2020) (13)
- The Factorial Structure of Spatial Abilities in Russian and Chinese Students (2018) (12)
- Spatial complexity of character-based writing systems and arithmetic in primary school: a longitudinal study (2015) (12)
- Twin Classroom Dilemma: To Study Together or Separately? (2018) (12)
- Alpha Band Resting-State EEG Connectivity Is Associated With Non-verbal Intelligence (2020) (11)
- Associations between pre-sleep arousal and insomnia symptoms in early adulthood: a twin and sibling study. (2019) (11)
- School quality ratings are weak predictors of students' achievement and well-being. (2019) (10)
- Understanding the science-learning environment: A genetically sensitive approach (2013) (9)
- Etiological Distinction of Working Memory Components in Relation to Mathematics. (2014) (9)
- Siblings’ Sex is linked to Mental Rotation Performance in Males but not Females (2016) (9)
- Visual and Linguistic Stimuli in the Remote Associates Test: A Cross-Cultural Investigation (2019) (9)
- Preschool Drawing and School Mathematics: The Nature of the Association. (2016) (9)
- The Sri Lankan Twin Registry: 2012 Update (2013) (9)
- Rotation is visualisation, 3D is 2D: using a novel measure to investigate the genetics of spatial ability (2016) (8)
- Persistent Genetic and Family-Wide Environmental Contributions to Early Number Knowledge and Later Achievement in Mathematics (2017) (8)
- Toxicological and nutritional status of trace elements in hair of women with in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancy and their 9-month-old children. (2018) (7)
- Judging in the genomic era: judges’ genetic knowledge, confidence and need for training (2020) (7)
- The nature of the association between number line and mathematical performance: An international twin study. (2018) (7)
- The Russian School Twin Registry (RSTR): Project PROGRESS (2012) (7)
- How Genetics Can Help Education (2016) (7)
- Dysfunctional beliefs about sleep and insomnia symptoms in early adulthood: A twin and sibling study (2019) (6)
- Environmental exposures and their genetic or environmental contribution to depression and fatigue: a twin study in Sri Lanka (2010) (6)
- The Jack and Jill Adaptive Working Memory Task: Construction, Calibration and Validation (2022) (6)
- Measuring Spatial Ability for Talent Identification, Educational Assessment, and Support: Evidence from Adolescents with High Achievement in Science, Arts, and Sports (2021) (6)
- Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Nicotine Use in Sri Lankan Male Twins (2012) (5)
- Сognitive characteristics and mathеmatical achievement in high school students: cross-cultural analyses. (2014) (5)
- Effects Of Education And Media Framing On Genetic Knowledge And Attitudes (2017) (5)
- Genetics and genomics: Good, bad and ugly (2012) (5)
- The Impact of Maternal Overweight on Hair Essential Trace Element and Mineral Content in Pregnant Women and Their Children (2019) (5)
- Generalist Genes: Implications for Cognitive Sciences. Opinion. (2006) (5)
- What Do People Know About the Heritability of Sleep? (2021) (5)
- Generalist Genes, Specialist Environments and the Internet Generation: Etiology of Learning Abilities Using Web-based Testing at 10 Years (2007) (5)
- Creative Storytelling in Childhood is Related to Exam Performance at Age 16 (2017) (5)
- Modern approaches in the study of spatial abilities: A structure and etiology of individual differences (2018) (4)
- Genetics for Education (2013) (4)
- To Use or Not to Use: No Consensus on Whether and How to Apply Genetic Information in the Justice System (2019) (4)
- The Etiology of Individual Differences in Maths beyond IQ: Insights from 12-year Old Twins☆ (2013) (4)
- Dyslexia across languages: Orthography and the brain-gene-behavior link (2011) (3)
- Online Short Spatial Ability Battery (OSSAB): Psychometric Norms for Older Students (2021) (3)
- Sex differences in the Dark Triad are sensitive to socioeconomic conditions: the adaptive value of narcissism in the UK, Greece, and China (2022) (3)
- Probing the architecture of visual number sense with parietal tRNS (2019) (3)
- Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Predictors of the Unifed State Exam Performance of Students from Schools with Regular and Advanced Mathematical Curricula (2018) (3)
- Quantitative ultrasound of bone and calcium intake in suburban males in Sri Lanka (2008) (3)
- Learning Abilities and Disabilities Genes, Specialist Environments (2007) (2)
- Links Between Cyberbullying, Depression And Self-Esteem In A Sample Of Brazilian Adolescents (2018) (2)
- Generalist genes and mathematics (2005) (2)
- Assessing Creative Expressiveness In Children’s Written Stories Using The Consensual Assessment Technique (2018) (2)
- Overlap and specificity of genetic and environmental influences on reading and mathematics disability in 10 year-old twins. (2007) (2)
- Studying Rare Genetic Syndromes as a Method of Investigating Aetiology of Normal Variation in Educationally Relevant Traits (2016) (2)
- Behavioural Genomics of Mathematics (2015) (2)
- Individual Differences in Mathematics Ability (2016) (2)
- Maths Anxiety Does Not Moderate the Link Between Spatial and Maths Ability (2017) (2)
- Response to Marcus and Rabagliati ‘Genes and domain specificity’ (2006) (2)
- Applying genetic discoveries to education. (2014) (2)
- The impact of lifestyle factors on age-related differences in hair trace element content in pregnant women in the third trimester. (2018) (2)
- This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes. (2022) (2)
- Hair Trace Element and Electrolyte Content in Women with Natural and In Vitro Fertilization-Induced Pregnancy (2017) (1)
- The Tri-Directional Framework of Parental Personality and Offspring Outcomes: A systematic review and critical synthesis of influencing factors (2021) (1)
- Genetics of learning abilities and disabilities: implications for cognitive neuroscience and translational research (2008) (1)
- The Impact of Trait and Mathematical Anxiety on Oscillatory Brain Activity during Lexical and Numerical Error-Recognition Tasks (2015) (1)
- Conclusion: Behavioural Genomics and Education (2016) (1)
- ‘Race’ and other group discrimination in the genomic era (2020) (1)
- Test-Retest Reliability Of Behavioural And Erp Measures In Maths-Related Processing (2018) (1)
- Math Anxiety in Children with and without Mathematical Difficulties (2019) (1)
- Longitudinal Associations Between Reading Achievement and Reading Motivation (2017) (1)
- A Journey into the Genomic Era: Sophocles Will Be Our Guide… (2021) (1)
- Creative expressiveness in childhood writing predicts educational achievement beyond motivation and intelligence: A longitudinal, genetically informed study. (2021) (1)
- Oedipus Rex in the Genomic Era: Human Behaviour, Law and Society (2021) (1)
- Factors of negative psycho-emotional states among women undergoing IVF treatment. . (2017) (1)
- No evidence of a positive effect of learning Chinese language as an L2 on spatial ability (2023) (1)
- Demographics, Lifestyle and Health in Families with Natural and Induced Pregnancy in Russia and the UK (2016) (1)
- Behavioural Genomics: Child Development And Education. (2016) (1)
- Generalist Genes and Developmental Psychopathology (2017) (1)
- Spatial ability and spatial memory in high school students with different levels of mathematical fluency. (2013) (1)
- Bfq-Rb(Russian Brief): Short Big-Five Questionnaireto Measure Facets And Factors Of Personality (2018) (1)
- A New Genetically Informative Approach to the Study of Child Psychopathology. (2015) (0)
- Spatial Anxiety And Spatial Performance In Univeristy Students In Russia And China (2018) (0)
- One step forward, two steps back: explaining the slow progress with understanding the origins of individual differences in mathematics. (2012) (0)
- Free Will in the Genomic Era (2021) (0)
- Early Predictors Of Creative Writing At Age 9 (2018) (0)
- Personality and engagement with music: Results from network modeling in three adolescent samples (2023) (0)
- EEG Correlates of Trait and Mathematical Anxiety during Lexical and Numerical Error-Recognition Tasks (2015) (0)
- Genetic and environmental underpinnings of spatial abilities and their role in predicting academic achievement and success in STEM. (2015) (0)
- School motivation: A twin study (2012) (0)
- DNA: The Greatest Text of All (2021) (0)
- Structural and functional genetic neuroimaging (2006) (0)
- Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Nicotine Use in Sri Lankan Male Twins (2012) (0)
- Persistent gender differences in spatial ability, even in STEM experts. (2023) (0)
- Yulia_Kovas , r/Science , Science AMA Series (2016) (0)
- Developmental Section Communications Survey (2013) (0)
- The issue of stability and change of general cognitive abilities in behavioural genetics. (2011) (0)
- Lessons from the Pandemic: Analyzing the Experience of Distant Learning in Secondary Schools (2022) (0)
- The relationship of birth weight with physical activity and stressful events in mother's life before and during pregnancy. (2016) (0)
- From rare mutations to normal variation: Genetic association study of mathematical, spatial, and general cognitive abilities (2018) (0)
- Cross-cultural behavioural genetic perspective on mathematical learning. (2012) (0)
- G. and Kovas, Yulia. 2020. The Impact of Maternal Overweight on Hair Essential Trace Element and Mineral Content in Pregnant Women and Their Children. Biological Trace Element (2020) (0)
- Why do reading difficulties co-occur with other learning disabilities? SNP-SET analyses (2006) (0)
- How general are genes for general cognitive ability? SNP- SET analyses (2006) (0)
- Reading Performance : Evidence From a Twin Study Math Fluency Is Etiologically Distinct From Untimed Math Performance , Decoding Fluency , and Untimed (2012) (0)
- Individual Differences in Spatial Abilities: An Investigation into Age, Sex, Handedness, and Sibling Effects. (2012) (0)
- Scrutinizing the teacher effect using twin methodology (2011) (0)
- Diagnosed Health Problems, Perceived Health and Attachment to the Fetus in Pregnant Women after Natural vs. Assisted Conception (2021) (0)
- Numerical processes and mathematical anxiety in UK and Russian University students. (2013) (0)
- Mathematical anxiety: etiology, development, and links with mathematical achievement. (2020) (0)
- Learning and Individual Differences (2016) (0)
- Individual differences in multisensory Approximate Number System and mathematical performance. (2013) (0)
- Stem Gender Gap And Intra-Individual Strengths In Maths And Russian Language (2018) (0)
- Phenomenon of mathematical anxiety in education. (2013) (0)
- The heritability of "number sense" (2012) (0)
- Individual Differences in Learning Abilities: the Contribution of Behavioural Genetics. (2012) (0)
- Prophesied Future and Redefined Past in the Genomic Era (2021) (0)
- A Mechanistic Study of the Association Between Symbolic Approximate Arithmetic Performance and Basic Number Magnitude Processing Based on Task Difficulty (2018) (0)
- Integrative Summary—Genetics and Reading Across Orthographies (2011) (0)
- Differences in exam performance between pupils attending selective and non-selective schools mirror the genetic differences between them (2018) (0)
- Explaining individual differences in the era of Behavioural Genomics: two steps forward, one step back (2012) (0)
- Phenomenon of mathematical fluency. (2013) (0)
- New literacy challenge for the twenty-first century: genetic knowledge is poor even among well educated (2018) (0)
- International Conference on Psychology and Education EFFECTS OF EDUCATION AND MEDIA FRAMING ON GENETIC KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES (2017) (0)
- The Problem of the Selection of Biological Material in the Epygenetic Research of Psychological Characteristics (2017) (0)
- Consensus too soon: judges’ and lawyers’ views on genetic information use (2023) (0)
- Explaining individual differences in mathematical ability: Genes, cultures, personality, and cognition (2014) (0)
- Individual differences in mathematical ability: A behavioral genetic approach. (2016) (0)
- SHORT REPORT Why do spatial abilities predict mathematical performance (2014) (0)
- The longitudinal relationship between phonology and arithmetic: between ages 3 and 12. (2013) (0)
- Genes, Environments and Life Trajectories (2021) (0)
- Genetics of Normal and Abnormal Behaviour in Childhood - the Abnormal is Normal: The Same Genetic and Environmental Factors Affect Normal Variation in Mathematical Ability and Common Mathematical Disability (2007) (0)
- Genetic and environmental influences on executive functions: Spatial planning and spatial working memory. (2012) (0)
- Mathematics, reading and IQ: A multivariate genetic analysisin 7-year-old twins (2004) (0)
- Individual differences in the number of mitochondrial DNA copies: the effect of socio-demographic factors (2022) (0)
- ICPE International Conference on Psychology and Education EFFECTS OF EDUCATION AND MEDIA FRAMING ON GENETIC KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES (2021) (0)
- Comprar The Genetic and Environmental Origins of Learning Abilities and Disabilities in the Early School Years | Yulia Kovas | 9781405184359 | Wiley (2008) (0)
- Generalist genes and mathematics: The latestquantitative and molecular genetic resultsfrom the TEDS study (2009) (0)
- Psychological characteristics of women undergoing an IVF treatment. (2016) (0)
- The origins of individual differences in mathematicalability (2007) (0)
- Confusion, Hubbub, and Order Scale--Short 5-Item Version (2015) (0)
- Mathematical Anxiety and mathematical learning: Multidimensional approach (2014) (0)
- Risk environment in early childhood and subsequent development: the role of epigenetics. (2016) (0)
- Are the mechanisms underlying mathematical learning in mathematically-gifted students fundamentally different? (2014) (0)
- The role of inflammatory system genes in individual differences in nonverbal intelligence (2022) (0)
- Mathematical anxiety, spatial ability and mathematical achievement: cross-cultural study of primary school children in Russia and UK. (2013) (0)
- Japanese Translation and Validation of Genomic Knowledge Measure in the International Genetics Literacy and Attitudes Survey (iGLAS-GK) (2023) (0)
- Judging in the genomic era: judges’ genetic knowledge, confidence and need for training (2020) (0)
- Prenatal testosterone does not explain sex differences in spatial ability (2018) (0)
- The Impact of Maternal Overweight on Hair Essential Trace Element and Mineral Content in Pregnant Women and Their Children (2019) (0)
- An Investigation of the Relationship between Academic Achievement, Socio-economic Status, Cognitive Abilities, and Self-perceived Mathematical Abilities in High School Students. (2012) (0)
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