Lee Anne Thompson is an American psychology professor known for her work in behavior genetics and the biological processes involved in intelligence.
[1] In 1994 she was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence,[2]" an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal, which declared the consensus of the signing scholars on issues related to race and intelligence following the publication of the book The Bell Curve.
Thompson has published studies with other signatories, including Douglas Detterman, Robert Plomin, and David Lubinski.
She has worked on studies attempting to locate DNA markers associated with high and low intelligence quotient.
[3] Thompson has also used fMRI to localize areas in the brain related to concentration.