For each week, up to two presenters (a and b) can sign up. Pleas put down your topic, name and reference to the paper(s) to be presented along with a link to it. Every student must have a unique topic (from the list)
Week, name, reference, link
Week 4a: General Intelligence in Monkeys - Conor
Week 4b: Non-human talk - Tracey
Week 5a: Environments and Processes- Laura
- Childhood Socioeconomic Status Amplifies Genetic Effects on Adult Intelligence
- Socioeconomic Status Modifies Heritability of IQ in Young Children
Week 6a: Can IQ be Trained - Shivani
Week 6b: Non-cognitive factors - Emma
Week 7a: Genes, environment and their interactions - Carina Cunha
Week 7b: Group Differences: Sex - Zawadi Mkulo
- Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
- Sex Differences on the Progressive Matrices: A Meta-analysis
Week 8a: Environments and Processes (Focus on Education) - Hanbi Zhang
Week 8b: Group Differences: The Flynn Effect - Bálint
- Sundet, J. M., Barlaug, D. G., & Torjussen, T. M. (2004). The end of the Flynn effect?: A study of secular trends in mean intelligence test scores of Norwegian conscripts during half a century. Intelligence, 32(4), 349-362. pdf
- Trahan, L. H., Stuebing, K. K., Fletcher, J. M., & Hiscock, M. (2014). The Flynn effect: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 140(5), 1332 - 1360. pdf
- Dutton, E., & Lynn, R. (2013). A negative Flynn effect in Finland, 1997–2009. Intelligence, 41(6), 817-820. pdf
Week 9a: Intelligence, health, well-being, and psychopathology - Nea Lulik
Week 9b: The biological basis of intelligence (Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory) - Sofia
Week 10a: Intelligence in Society - Adam Francis
Week 10b: Ageing - Zander Crook
- The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition
- A strong link between speed of visual discrimination and cognitive ageing
NB: DON'T overwrite other people's earlier choices: first come first served