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Intelligence, hormones, sex, brain size, and biochemistry: It all needs to have equal causal standing before integration is possible

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2007

Helmuth Nyborg
Helmuth Nyborg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, DK-8362 Horning, Denmark. [email protected]
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Abstract

Recent brain imaging points to differences in brain structure that relate to intelligence, but how do we model their causal relationship within a coherent framework that circumvents classic dualist traps? A bottom-level nonlinear, dynamic, multifactor, multiplicative, multidimensional, molecular (ND4M) trait-covariance time-space model may accomplish this better than traditional approaches.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 164 - 165
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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