Portraits of the Lothian Birth Cohort - Fionna Carlisle and Ian

Portraits of the Lothian Birth Cohort - Fionna Carlisle and Ian Deary

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Did you know that Scotland is home to the longest study of human cognition in the world? Contemporary Scottish Artist Fionna Carlisle and Lothian Birth Cohorts Director Professor Ian Deary discuss how they came to collaborate on an exhibition of the Lothian Birth Cohort participants, which is showing from Friday 26 October to Saturday 24 November 2018 at the Firestation Gallery at the Edinburgh College of Art. Related links: Forward Thinking blog Fionna Carlise Ian Deary Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology Godfrey Thompson Project | Documenting the understanding of human intelligence

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