@article{ref1,
title="Neural and genetic bases for human ability traits",
journal="Frontiers in human neuroscience",
year="2020",
author="Jabakhanji, Rami and Bielefeld, Jannis and Pinto, Camila Bonin and Apkarian, A. Vania and Griffith, James W. and Reckziegel, Diane",
volume="14",
number="",
pages="e609170-e609170",
abstract="The judgement of human ability is ubiquitous, from school admissions to job performance reviews. The exact make-up of ability traits, however, is often narrowly  defined and lacks a comprehensive basis. We attempt to simplify the spectrum of  human ability, similar to how five personality traits are widely believed to  describe most personalities. Finding such a basis for human ability would be  invaluable since neuropsychiatric disease diagnoses and symptom severity are  commonly related to such differences in performance. Here, we identified four  underlying ability traits within the National Institutes of Health Toolbox normative  data (n = 1, 369): (1) Motor-endurance, (2) Emotional processing, (3) Executive and  cognitive function, and (4) Social interaction. We used the Human Connectome Project  young adult dataset (n = 778) to show that Motor-endurance and Executive and  cognitive function were reliably associated with specific brain functional networks  (r (2) = 0.305 ± 0.021), and the biological nature of these ability traits was also  shown by calculating their heritability (31 and 49%, respectively) from twin data.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1662-5161",
doi="10.3389/fnhum.2020.609170",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.609170"
}