Cognition

Our ‘Cognition’ research explores individual differences in spatial, language, numerical and other aspects of cognition.

We use different approaches, including experimental psychology, cross-cultural epidemiological research, genetic approaches, and neuroscience, to understand their structure, sex differences, cultural differences, and relationship with educational and STEM outcomes.

Some of our previous publications from this work:

Cross-cultural investigation into cognitive underpinnings of individual differences in early arithmetic

Maja Rodic ∙ Xinlin Zhou ∙ Tatiana Tikhomirova ∙ Wei Wei ∙ Sergei Malykh ∙ Victoria Ismatulina ∙ Elena Sabirova ∙ Yulia Davidova ∙ Maria Grazia Tosto ∙ Jean-Pascal Lemelin ∙ Yulia Kovas

Persistent gender differences in spatial ability, even in STEM experts.

Elina S. Tsigeman ∙ Maxim V. Likhanov ∙ Anna V. Budakova ∙ Aydar Akmalov ∙ Ildar Sabitov ∙ Evgeniia Alenina ∙ Ksenia Bartseva ∙ Yulia Kovas

This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes

Maxim Likhanov ∙ Ekaterina Maslennikova ∙ Giulio Costantini ∙ Anna Budakova ∙ Elena Esipenko ∙ Victoria Ismatullina ∙ Yulia Kovas

Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence

Margherita Malanchini ∙ Kaili Rimfeld ∙ Nicholas G. Shakeshaft ∙ Andrew McMillan ∙ Kerry L. Schofield ∙ Maja Rodic ∙ Valerio Rossi ∙ Yulia Kovas ∙ Philip S. Dale ∙ Elliot M. Tucker-Drob ∙ Robert Plomin

Sex differences in non-verbal and verbal abilities in childhood and adolescence

Teemu Toivainen ∙ Kostas A. Papageorgiou ∙ Maria G. Tosto ∙ Yulia Kovas

Phenotypic and genetic evidence for a unifactorial structure of spatial abilities

Kaili Rimfeld ∙ Nicholas G. Shakeshaft ∙ Margherita Malanchini ∙ Maja Rodic ∙ Saskia Selzam ∙ Kerry Schofield ∙ Philip S. Dale ∙ Yulia Kovas ∙ Robert Plomin