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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. Kovas received the British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology in 2012. Kovas is the director of the International Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Investigations into Individual Differences in Learning at Goldsmiths, and 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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