Timeline for Is short term memory ability inherited?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
9 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2018 at 23:39 | vote | accept | zooby | ||
| Jul 10, 2018 at 7:46 | comment | added | Eff | @zooby Is there anything in your question you feel like hasn't been addressed? | |
| Jul 1, 2018 at 22:00 | comment | added | zooby | @Fizz One reason could be that if they said that they would be less likely to get their paper published. | |
| Jul 1, 2018 at 3:21 | comment | added | got trolled too much this week | @zooby: While some evolutionary pressure no doubt existed in the direction of selecting for better visio-spatial memory for people living in areas with vague landmarks (like deserts), I'm not seeing evidence in that abstract the difference is genetic and not influenced by the environment the chilld grew up in. | |
| Jun 30, 2018 at 2:42 | comment | added | zooby | I can't find the documentary but I can cite some other sources: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010028581900177 about aborginal Autstralian's memory ability. I trust that when you are saying that a particular population has greater abilities than the world norm it is not too contentious. Unfortunately if you find a result in the opposite direction then social politics comes in the way of science. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | Eff | @steveLangsford Yep, of course. And the degree of regression to the mean depends on the narrow sense heritability. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 13:51 | comment | added | steveLangsford | Parents with better short term memory will, on average, have children with better short term memory [than the population average, but you will also get regression to the mean, just like with height] | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 10:47 | history | edited | Eff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added savants as example of high memory, low reasoning
|
| Jun 29, 2018 at 10:39 | history | answered | Eff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |