Intelligence and the DNA Revolution
We are a product of both our genetic makeup and our environments, as well as the complex interplay between the two.
Behavioral, Neural, and Genetic Approaches to Complex Skill
Who rises to the top in music, sports, games, business, science, and other complex domains? This is a question that parents, teachers, coaches, talent scouts, and search committees all seek to answer—and one of enduring fascination to psychologists. Indeed, the question of whether experts are “born” or “made” is the subject of what is arguably psychology’s oldest debate. Particularly in the past decade, there has been an explosion of scientific interest in this issue. Research on expertise has also captured the popular imagination through books such as Geoff Colvin’s Talent is Overrated and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly 200 weeks.
Offering the broadest review of psychological perspectives on human expertise to date, this volume covers behavioral, computational, neural, and genetic approaches to understanding complex skill. The chapters show how performance in music, the arts, sports, games, medicine, and other domains reflects basic traits such as personality and intelligence, as well as knowledge and skills acquired through training. In doing so, this book moves the field of expertise beyond the duality of "nature vs. nurture" toward an integrative understanding of complex skill.
