Hans-Christoph Nuerk
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Hans-Christoph Nuerk
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Tuebingen Brain And Number Group: (Neuro-)cognitive foundations, development, diagnostics, intervention, education of arithmetic & language; no official account
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In recent years, well-powered genome scans related to speech, language & reading skills became feasible, in part via team science approaches that harmonize data across multiple cohorts, exemplified by this GenLang Consortium study of common DNA variants & psychometric measures in <34,000 people. 9/n
Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people | PNAS
The use of spoken and written language is a fundamental human capacity. Individual differences in reading- and language-related skills are influenc...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Results from the most well-known dissonance experiment are mathematically impossible @steamtraen.eu

(To get the intuition behind this analysis, imagine that we take the mean of 10 Likert scale scores. The mean could be 4.20 but not 4.25)

mattiheino.com/2016/11/13/l...
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤

If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM