Susan E Luczak, Christopher R Beam, Shandell Pahlen, Morgan Lynch, Matthew Pilgrim, Chandra A Reynolds, Matthew S Panizzon, Vibeke S Catts, Kaare Christensen, Deborah Finkel, Carol E Franz, William S Kremen, Teresa Lee, Matt McGue, Marianne Nygaard, Brenda L Plassman, Keith E Whitfield, Nancy L Pedersen, Margaret Gatz
It is well documented that memory is heritable and that older adults tend to have poorer memory performance than younger adults. However, whether the magnitudes of genetic and environmental contributions to late-life verbal episodic memory ability differ from those at earlier ages remains unresolved. Twins from 12 studies participating in the Interplay of Genes and Environment in Multiple Studies (IGEMS) consortium constituted the analytic sample. Verbal episodic memory was assessed with immediate word list recall ( N = 35,204 individuals; 21,792 twin pairs) and prose recall ( N = 3,805 individuals; 2,028 twin pairs), with scores harmonized across studies...
2023: Intelligence