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Big-brained people are smarter: A meta-analysis of the relationship between in vivo brain volume and intelligence
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Metadata
- Authors
- MCDANIEL, M.
- Venue
- Intelligence
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-07
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 337-346
- ISSN
- 0160-2896 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2162424711
- Cited by
- 507
- References
- 37
- FWCI
- 6.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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