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Tamnes, Christian K.; Fjell, Anders M.; Ostby, Ylva; Westlye, Lars T.; Due-Tonnessen, Paulina; Bjornerud, Atle; Walhovd, Kristine B. – Neuropsychologia, 2011
Distributed brain areas support intellectual abilities in adults. How structural maturation of these areas in childhood enables development of intelligence is not established. Neuroimaging can be used to monitor brain development, but studies to date have typically considered single imaging modalities. To explore the impact of structural brain…
Descriptors: Brain, Intellectual Development, Children, Adolescents
Backman, Jarl – 1978
Swedes in four different age groups (9, 12, 15 and 18 years) judged written words which varied in three dimensions: syntactic category, objective frequency, and polysemy (multiple meaning). The subjects judged ease of comprehension of 24 words in a factorial arrangement. The method used was Thurstone's paired comparisons. A predicted complex…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comprehension, Error Analysis (Language)
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Walker, Harry A.; Birch, Herbert G. – Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 1974
Analyzed and compared to other disability groups were patterns of intellectual functioning in 120 institutionalized boys 10- to 15-years-old. (CL)
Descriptors: Children, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research, Factor Analysis
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Chan, David W.; Lin, Wen-Ying – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1996
Confirmatory analyses on the Hong Kong Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (HK-WISC) provided support for composite score interpretation based on the two- and three-dimensional models across age levels. Test sample was comprised of 1,100 children, ranging in age from 5 to 15 years at all 11 age levels specified by the HK-WISC. (KW)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Children
Quereshi, M. Y. – 1971
The present study was designed to (1) investigate the changes in the structure and organization of mental abilities during childhood and adolescence of 514 students as sampled by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (5 to 15 years) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (16 to 18 Years) and (2) interpret, and possibly modify, the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development