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Studies and Articles on Intelligence



Here are links to several studies and articles about intelligence, mentioned in Dr. Droge's book, Intelligent Children: A Brief Introduction To What Today's Smart Parents Know About Increasing A Child's Intelligence  ( http://www.amazon.com/author/droge  ):



Articles and Studies

Garlick, Dennis.  “Understanding the nature of the general factor of intelligence: the role of individual differences in neural plasticity as an explanatory mechanism.”  Psychological Review, 2002, Vol. 109, No. 1, 116-136.

Greulich, William Walter.  “A comparison of the physical growth and development of American-born and native Japanese children.”  American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 15, Issue 4, pages 489–515, December 1957.

Hart, Betty, and Todd R. Risley.  “The early catastrophe: the 30 million word gap by age 3.”  Excerpt from Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experiences of Young American Children.  Hart, Betty.  Baltimore: Brookes Publishing; 1995.

Jaeggi, Susanne M., Martin Buschkuehl, John Jonides, and Walter J. Perrig. “Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory.”  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 19, May 2008.

Kruglinski, Susan.  “What Makes You Uniquely You.”  Discover Magazine, February 2009.

Spearman, Charles. (1904). "General intelligence," objectively determined and measured. American Journal of Psychology 15, 201-293.

Sternberg, Robert J. (2005). “The theory of successful intelligence”.  InterAmerican Journal of Psychology, Vol. 39, No. 2, 189-202.

Terman, Lewis Madison.  The Measurement of Intelligence: An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon
Intelligence Scale
.  E-book version available via Project Gutenberg.  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20662

Weinberg, Richard A.  “Intelligence and IQ: Landmark issues and great debates.” American Psychologist, Vol. 44, No. 2, 98-104, February 1989.