25.01.07 News From Salk

Beyond Nature vs. Nurture: Williams Syndrome Across Cultures

 

A multi-institutional study led by Ursula Bellugi, director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at Salk, has found a clever way to untangle how much sway our environment has over our genes to shape human behavior by studying children with Williams syndrome from various cultures.

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