Development of coordination in time estimation

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Authors

  • Adam W. Kiefer
  • Sebastian Wallot
  • Lori J. Gresham
  • Heidi Kloos
  • Michael A. Riley
  • Kevin Shockley
  • Guy Van Orden

How to best characterize cognitive development? The claim put forward in this article is that development is the improvement of a kind of coordination among a variety of factors. To determine the development of coordination in a cognitive task, children between 4 and 12 years of age and adults participated in a time estimation task: They had to press a button every time they thought a short time interval had passed. The resulting data series of estimated time intervals was then subjected to a set of fractal analyses to quantify coordination in terms of its degree of "rigidity" (very highly integrated) vs. "looseness" (poorly integrated). Results show a developmental trajectory toward pink-noise patterns, suggesting that cognitive development progresses from a very loose, poorly integrated coordination of factors toward a pattern that expresses more integration, perhaps due to an optimization of constraints, that allows for a more stable coordination.

Original languageEnglish
JournalDevelopmental Psychology
Volume50
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)393-401
Number of pages9
ISSN0012-1649
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.02.2014
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Psychology - Fractals, Motor and cognitive development, Time estimation

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